Both find the most fundamental rules of discourse under review. Artists are perhaps more like poets. They don t much care if order is not forthcoming. This makes their disorder easier but not less plentiful. The world of art was now a collection of differences, each artist a kind of tradition unto his or her own.
Popular music is awash in plenitude.
It has always had an exuberant disregard for generic conventions. But it fizzes with innovation. Neil Strauss identified some 22 potential successors. Diverse elements mix and multiply so routinely that record stores despair of labeling their bins. All the diversity of the world mixing, matching, and multiplying on a single album.