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I don't necessarily agree with that article comepletely, but I don't see how there can be an avant-garde within popular music. There is no "continuous progress within a single, notionally unified culture." It's almost the opposite: static repetition of the same music (with surface variations) in a huge constellation of cultures. I don't think that an avant-garde is possible at all anymore because I see no continuous progress within a practice anywhere.
I am optimistic that I'm wrong or that it's only a matter of time though. I guess it depends on how you define "notionally" though. Whatever. Lame.
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