Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 20:30:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Avant-Garde ???


>>I don't  know about the USA but here in the UK the term avant-garde
>>tends not to be used much for recent artists. Is this because the
>>avant-garde no longer exists or that the revolutionary social
>>situation no longer throws up radical artists or that it has not been
>>replaced by the broader concept of the 'counter culture' ?
>
>In my opinion the present avant-garde lies predominantly in music. For
>example, the german band Einst=FCrzende Neubauten.

Einsturzende Neubauten *used to be* an avant-garde group, recently though
they're practically mundane dance music (disco).



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