Originally Posted by Gregor XIII

Ridiculous... You've just moved John Cage to the same sub-forum as Gang Gang Dance, Battles and Arthur Russel... I can see why someone would put a thread devoted to John Cage in the avant-garde subsection to begin with, but moving him away from the realm of classical is just stupid.

You know, lot's of classical music was avantgarde to begin with. Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Boulez. They are practically the original avant-gardists. And yet, today we group them with 'classical' 'cause they were avantgardists in the classical tradition. The 'garde' they were marching in front of was a 'garde' of classical composers. As with John Cage. Once again: This is completely ridiculous.