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Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956)

the idea of the "avant-garde" has been perhaps the most important and influential force in modern culture

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33 1/3 - Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Wire Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "JeromeOutside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, pote maudit, Pop Artist, libertine and anti hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo,