Editing Modernism (section)

=== Avant-garde popular music ===
{{Main|Avant-garde music}}
Modernism had an uneasy relationship with popular forms of music (both in form and aesthetic) while rejecting popular culture.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Modernism and Popular Music – Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism|url=https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/modernism-and-popular-music|access-date=2021-09-09|website=www.rem.routledge.com|language=en|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903134150/https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/modernism-and-popular-music|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite this, Stravinsky used jazz idioms on his pieces like "Ragtime" from his 1918 theatrical work ''[[Histoire du Soldat]]'' and 1945's ''[[Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky)|Ebony Concerto]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Why Jazz Musicians Love 'The Rite Of Spring'|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/05/26/186486269/why-jazz-musicians-love-the-rite-of-spring|access-date=2021-09-09|newspaper=NPR|date=26 May 2013|language=en|last1=Jarenwattananon|first1=Patrick|archive-date=3 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903134148/https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2013/05/26/186486269/why-jazz-musicians-love-the-rite-of-spring|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the 1960s, as popular music began to gain cultural importance and question its status as commercial entertainment, musicians began to look to the [[post-war]] avant-garde for inspiration.<ref name="bloomsbury"/> In 1959, music producer [[Joe Meek]] recorded ''[[I Hear a New World]]'' (1960), which ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]''{{'}} Jonathan Patrick calls a "seminal moment in both [[electronic music]] and [[avant-pop]] history [...] a collection of dreamy pop vignettes, adorned with [[dub music|dubby]] echoes and tape-warped sonic tendrils" which would be largely ignored at the time.<ref name="tmtpat2013">{{cite web|last1=Patrick|first1=Jonathan|title=Joe Meek's pop masterpiece I Hear a New World gets the chance to haunt a whole new generation of audiophile geeks|url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/joe-meeks-pop-masterpiece-i-hear-a-new-world-gets-the-chance-to-haunt-a-whole-new-generation-of|website=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]|date=March 8, 2013|access-date=3 September 2021|archive-date=2 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202035754/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/joe-meeks-pop-masterpiece-i-hear-a-new-world-gets-the-chance-to-haunt-a-whole-new-generation-of|url-status=live}}</ref> Other early Avant-pop productions included [[the Beatles]]'s 1966 song "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]", which incorporated techniques from [[musique concrète]], avant-garde composition, [[Indian music]], and [[Electroacoustics (acoustical engineering)|electro-acoustic]] sound manipulation into a 3-minute pop format, and [[the Velvet Underground]]'s integration of [[La Monte Young]]'s [[minimalist music|minimalist]] and [[drone music]] ideas, [[beat poetry]], and 1960s pop art.<ref name="bloomsbury">{{cite book |last1=Albiez |first1=Sean |editor1-last=Horn |editor1-first=David |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Vol. XI: Genres: Europe |date=2017 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=9781501326103 |pages=36–38 |chapter=Avant-pop |doi=10.5040/9781501326110-0111}}</ref>