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The singer’s previous album, “El Mal Querer,” arrived fully formed in 2018, introducing Rosalía as a confident vanguardist updating the flamenco music she studied as a teenager in Catalonia for a globalized, digital era.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Though Ross mocks the idea of the heroic dissenter he associates with "vanguardist" critics of popular culture, he presents Andy Warhol as a culture hero, exemplary because he identified himself with popular culture.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

A similarly vanguardist outlook characterized almost all the places that Reece and Jennings write about.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

He has ample history with the members of this promising quartet, each a vanguardist in his own right: the tenor saxophonist Chris Speed, the bassist Chris Lightcap and the drummer David King.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2016

Through his manager, Mr. Hancock met with Bill Laswell and Michael Beinhorn, whose vanguardist rock band Material was a fixture of New York’s downtown scene.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2016