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What’s up with the gate keeping dude? Philip is an experimental musician, avant-garde has an experimental aspect to it, so people like calling him that. Why fus
by johnnujler 6y ago
What’s up with the gate keeping dude? Philip is an experimental musician, avant-garde has an experimental aspect to it, so people like calling him that. Why fuss over a word?
And fwiw, things change, language is emergent, words acquire and lose meaning based on how people use it, not the other way around.
- garbagetime 6y agoPersonally, I'd be happy to be convinced that he's not an avant-garde composer. There might be some aspect to the term I'm not aware of. But "the word doesn't occur in the Wikipedia article" certainly isn't a very convincing point.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoWhat aspects of music does Glass experiment with, in the 21st century? In 1968, it was fair to call him an experimental composer and musician. In 2021, not so much, certainly no more than any composer who is alive and still trying to write new work.