the absence of avant garde as a listed genre it seems lately the avant garde genre has been under fire with an insistence that it practically doesn't exist in music other than decades old compositions an insistence that music historically deemed avant garde is to from now on only be categorized as experimental such is the nature of wikipedia's current avant garde music article nevertheless this article currently drops numerous references to zappa's interactions with the very real genre zappa agrees to the genre in a interview frank zappa interview does anyone have an objection to its inclusion if so please permanently append a reason why to the talk page references