![]() 'Avant-garde' as a descriptor has become iconic little is known of its etymology or theoretical underpinning Perspectives of New Music beyond its loose denotation of, as I have said, comparative radicalism. Namely, I ask in what meaningful way can we consider underground music to articu late, rehabilitate, even re-purpose, the notion of the avant-garde? The modern declension of the term 'avant-garde' invariably renders it as a degenerated and dehistoricized slogan, a logo, a hook which signifies in ten easy letters fuzzy impressions of experimentation, radicalism, and fractiousness. The question guiding my paper concerns the proposed yoking together of the concept of the avant-garde with underground music. I will provide an introduction to the field of underground music, summarizing its history, its aesthetics, and its practitioners. ![]() (Un )Popular Avant- Gardes : Underground Popular Music and the Avant-Garde Stephen Graham I am going το talk about underground popular music, particularly in its role as an index of what I am describing as a popular avant garde. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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