Experimental pop deerhood
Experimental rock has never caught on with the general public. Much of it, with its modernist sublimity, its valorization of the ugly and difficult, sought to push the boundaries and shock listeners out of their complacency.
But rock music has always had a strong experimental strain. As early as the 1950s, Link Wray was breaking the mold established by Chuck Berry and Little Richard. In the ’60s, musicians like Captain Beefheart, the Red Krayola and the Velvet Underground began to incorporate the innovations of the postwar European avant-garde, free jazz, minimalism, etc. into...
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