American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

The museum also served as a social meeting place for Frenchmen and American female students, who like Cassatt, were not allowed to attend cafes where the avant-garde socialized.

He had evolved from what Edward Alden Jewell, a reviewer for the New York Times, called a “ debilitating focus on Regionalist and ethnic concerns ” to what became known as his stylistic approach which participated in the post-war aims of avant-garde American art.

By the Second World War, the taste of the American avant-garde in New York City swung decisively towards Abstract Expressionism with the support of key taste makers, including Peggy Guggenheim, Leo Steinberg and Clement Greenberg.

Talking Heads was an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works.

As a patron of the arts, she had already achieved some success as the creator of the " Whitney Studio Club ," a New York – based exhibition space which she created in 1918 to promote the works of avant-garde and unrecognized American artists.

Together they hosted a salon that attracted expatriate American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Paul Bowles, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson, and avant-garde painters, including Picasso, Matisse, and Braque.

Glenn Branca ( born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series.

The American musician and artist La Monte Young had been asked to guest-edit an issue of a literary journal, Beatitude East, and asked George Maciunas, a trained graphic designer, for help with the layout ; Maciunas supplied the paper, design, and some money for publishing of the anthology, which contained a more or less arbitrary association of New York avant-garde artists at that time.

La Monte Thornton Young ( born October 14, 1935 ) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist.

In the 1970s and 1980s the American jazz musician Gerald Oshita ( based in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area and associated with Roscoe Mitchell ) played avant-garde jazz on an EE ♭ contrabass manufactured by Conn. More recently ( 1990 – 2006 ), recordings using sarrusophone have been released by saxophonists Scott Robinson, Lenny Pickett, James Carter, and Paul Winter.

Albert Ayler ( July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970 ) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

By the beginning of the 1960s, Australian classical music erupted with influences, with composers incorporating disparate elements into their work, ranging from Aboriginal and south-east Asian music and instruments, to American jazz and blues, to the belated discovery of European atonality and the avant-garde.

( born Hilda Doolittle ; September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961 ) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

American bands in the field included, most famously, The Ramones and Talking Heads, the latter playing a more avant-garde style that was closely associated with punk before evolving into mainstream New Wave.

Time summarized and interpreted the week's news ; Life was a picture magazine of politics, culture and society that dominated American visual perceptions in the era before television ; Fortune explored in depth the economy and the world of business, introducing to executives avant-garde ideas such as Keynesianism ; and Sports Illustrated which probed beneath the surface of the game to explore the motivations and strategies of the teams and key players.

Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City ), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

Meshes of the Afternoon is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film.

It is the first narrative film in avant-garde American film, which critics have said took on an autobiographical tone-for women and the individual.

George Antheil ( July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959 ) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century.

Acket desired to present a great diversity of jazz music to the public, from American jazz to European avant-garde.

African American studies professor Mark Anthony Neal has described neo soul as " everything from avant-garde R & B to organic soul ... a product of trying to develop something outside of the norm in R & B ".

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist

* 1930 – Manuel Neri, American artist

* 1890 – Man Ray, American photographer and artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist ( d. 1987 )

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist ( d. 1986 )

* 1979 – Kyle Watson, American mixed martial artist

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1983 – Nick Diaz, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Shayna Baszler, American mixed martial artist

* 1959 – Robert Casilla, American artist and illustrator

* 1976 – Phil Baroni, American mixed martial artist

* 1985 – Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist

* 1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – John Singer Sargent, American artist ( b. 1856 )

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* 1971 – Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist

Dollaway, American mixed martial artist

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

* 1959 – Tim Jacobus, American artist

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1977 – Doseone, American rapper, producer, poet, and artist ( Deep Puddle Dynamics, Greenthink, Clouddead, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God )

* 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and director ( d. 2008 )