Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance

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what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]

            and i was thinking about this while i was flying
 toward iowa and thinking about how everyone was going to be
trying to locate the avant-garde      and about how almost
 everyone was going to agree that it would involve either
shocking or making it new      and and that i was supposed to be
 talking about this too      and i realized i was going to be
  confused      because practically every role classically
attributed to the avant-garde has been preempted by something
 else      and i reflected that i myself have never really had
a clear image of what it was to be avant-ga

David Antin

1993

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Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance

what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]

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