Here to "get the ball rolling" as it were is an example I spotted to-day. It comes from Grove's Dictionary:
"Guero (1970) for solo piano entirely avoids the 'normal' sound of the piano achieved by striking the keys." (Article by Mosch on Lachenmann the German.)
So - pretty obvious this thread - a long-needed compartment for things overblown, pretentious, insincere. The word derives of course from the Greek stem ψευδ-, signifying "false"; and it - the term but certainly not the phenomenon - did not come into widespread use until the '-sixties of the last century. In the field of the highest British art-music this I think had something to do with Wilfrid Mellers and his otherwise inexplicable pushing of "pop" groups.
As two of the word's earliest appearances the great Oxford English Dictionary cites the following:
1) The pseuds and intellectual craze-mongers seem to have dropped cinéma-vérité almost as quickly as they took it up. (The Spectator, 1964)
2) As well as being the creator of an avant-garde film on human buttocks, Miss Ono has a long list of other achievements which must put her in the running for the title of Pseud of the Century. (Jazz Monthly, 1968)
All members are invited to add their own observations and discoveries.
"Guero (1970) for solo piano entirely avoids the 'normal' sound of the piano achieved by striking the keys." (Article by Mosch on Lachenmann the German.)
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So - pretty obvious this thread - a long-needed compartment for things overblown, pretentious, insincere. The word derives of course from the Greek stem ψευδ-, signifying "false"; and it - the term but certainly not the phenomenon - did not come into widespread use until the '-sixties of the last century. In the field of the highest British art-music this I think had something to do with Wilfrid Mellers and his otherwise inexplicable pushing of "pop" groups.
As two of the word's earliest appearances the great Oxford English Dictionary cites the following:
1) The pseuds and intellectual craze-mongers seem to have dropped cinéma-vérité almost as quickly as they took it up. (The Spectator, 1964)
2) As well as being the creator of an avant-garde film on human buttocks, Miss Ono has a long list of other achievements which must put her in the running for the title of Pseud of the Century. (Jazz Monthly, 1968)
All members are invited to add their own observations and discoveries.
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