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Is Music not a Performing Art?

Examples of performing art (music.etc) which break accepted convention. what do we learn from it??

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    Breaking convention can be found in the visual arts, fashion, film, and literature, but also in intellectual and new approaches to music, cuisine, politics or culture. Examples are found in movements releating to: Conceptual art, Constructivism, Cubism, Expressionism, Free Jazz, Futurism, Impressionism , Lyrical Abstraction, Minimal art, Neoism, No Wave (rejecting the commercial elements of the New Wave genre) Pop art, Postminimalism, Primitivism, Surrealism. Artist who break convention shed new light on human potential. They not only have the courage to think outside of the box, and rock the boat they also open the pathways through new cultural or political terrain for society to follow. They create for the rest of us the experience of hearing or seeing something new. They touch a part of our mind that lie dormant. However, it should be noted that most attempts to break convention are of poor quality, leading to ridicule. Yet, if an artist did not have the courage to create we would be in lack of aesthetics. Breaking convention is relevant to art because without it art itself would stagnate and become dormant and merely craft, repeating the same style over and over. List of people well know for breaking convention in their field of endever; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9Fvax675Y&mode=related&search= http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/The_Love_of_Zero%2C_35mm_film_Robert_Florey1928.jpg William S. Burroughs (author, poet, essayist) Kid Koala (DJ, hip-hop, electronica, jazz) Pablo Picasso (painter) Claude Monet (painter) Édouard Manet (painter) Alejandro Jodorowsky (director) e.e. cummings (poet) John Coltrane (American jazz musician) Philip Glass (American composer) Laurie Anderson (American composer) Sun Ra (Free jazz innovator) James Joyce (writer) Samuel Beckett (Irish Playwright) Stan Brakhage (American filmmaker) Jim Carroll (avant-garde poet) John Cage (American composer) Brian Eno (English musician and composer) Marcel Duchamp (French artist) Mike Oldfield (English composer) George Johnson (abstract painter) William Carlos Williams (American poet) Les Claypool (American musician, singer, bassist, film maker, novelist, composer) Frank Zappa (American composer, guitarist and satirist) Sonic Youth (American alternative band)

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As far as music is concerned, the main pieces that break accepted convention (at least from the standpoint within western tradition) are George Crumb's Black Angels, Krystoff Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and any serialist piece by Arnold Schoenberg like Pierrot Lunaire. Less radical are impressionist works by Debussy and (the "kickoff" of 20th century art music) The Right of Spring by Stravinsky. These pieces (especially Black Angels and Threnody) challenge our understanding of music, or what makes music "good" and "bad," especially in a society that has been trained to listen to major/minor tonality for the past 400 years. To get even more extreme, another piece that you probably won't find a recording of is John Cage's 4'33" in which he sits down at a piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds without doing anything, claiming that the concert is the ambient noise of the audience and any other sound that enters the concert hall. While somewhat pretentious and controversial, the piece challenges our understanding of music not just in quality but what music is.

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The indigenous perforiming arts of oriental and pacific cultures deviate from western canon. If the western standard like European dance or classical drama is what you mean by "convention", then our tribal dances and ancient reading of hisotiries here in the Philippines are just a sample of wonderful genres of perfoming arts that are unlike the that of the western tradition.

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Not sure if you're asking for specific examples, but we learn that you can do your own thing and it be just as good as everyone else's. It helps promote individuality and ultimately widens everyone's horizons by forcing them to accept something new and different. The performing arts honestly aren't my area of expertise, but one excellent example does come to mind--Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle. It's pretty wild. See if you can find a screening of it in your area.

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