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Outsider music

Index Outsider music

Outsider music is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians. [1]

80 relations: An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Authenticity in art, Autodidacticism, Avant-garde music, Avant-pop, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile, Bizarre Records, Bob Moore, Brian Wilson, Butthole Surfers, Camp (style), Captain Beefheart, Celine Dion, Creativity and mental illness, Daniel Johnston, Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Wild Man Fischer, Documentary film, Dub music, Eilert Pilarm, Field recording, Folk art, Frank Zappa, Harry Partch, Home recording, Independent music, Indie rock, Intellectual disability, Irwin Chusid, Jandek, Jandek on Corwood, K Records, Kitsch, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, List of music considered the worst, Lo-fi music, Lucia Pamela, Marilyn Manson, Mental disorder, Naïve art, New Weird America, Novelty song, Oar (album), Ogg, Outsider art, Philosophy of the World, Primitivism, R. Stevie Moore, Recording studio, ..., Robert Graettinger, Roger Cardinal, Session musician, Skip Spence, Songs in the Key of Z, Sound recording and reproduction, Sub Pop, Sun Ra, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys bootleg recordings, The Beatles, The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Guardian, The Madcap Laughs, The Nashville A-Team, The New York Times, The Observer, The Shaggs, The Wire (magazine), Tiny Tim (musician), Tower Records, Trout Mask Replica, Underground music, Wadham College, Oxford, Wesley Willis, WFMU, Wild Man Fischer, 15 minutes of fame. Expand index (30 more) »

An Evening with Wild Man Fischer

An Evening with Wild Man Fischer is a 1968 double LP album by Wild Man Fischer.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Authenticity in art

Authenticity in art is the different ways in which a work of art or an artistic performance may be considered authentic.

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Autodidacticism

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools).

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Avant-pop

Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.

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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile

Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile is a 2004 documentary film directed by David Leaf about American musician Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' unfinished Smile album, and the making of Wilson's Brian Wilson Presents Smile.

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Bizarre Records

Bizarre Records, self-identified simply as Bizarre, was a production company and record label formed for artists discovered by rock musician Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen.

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Bob Moore

Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932) is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist who was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart.

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Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.

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Creativity and mental illness

The concept of a link between creativity and mental illness has been extensively discussed and studied by psychologists and other researchers for centuries.

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Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston (born January 22, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and visual artist who is regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes.

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Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Wild Man Fischer

Derailroaded: Inside The Mind Of Wild Man Fischer is a 2005 documentary film, directed by Josh Rubin and Jeremy Lubin, aka The Ubin Twinz about outsider artist Wild Man Fischer.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Eilert Pilarm

Eilert Dahlberg (born April 4, 1953 in Anundsjö, Sweden), who uses the stage name Eilert Pilarm, is a Swedish Elvis impersonator.

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Field recording

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds.

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Folk art

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Harry Partch

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments.

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Home recording

Home recording is the practice of sound recording in a private home, rather than in a professional recording studio.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability, and mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.

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Irwin Chusid

Irwin Chusid (born April 22, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist".

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Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of Corwood Industries, a record label operating out of Houston, Texas.

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Jandek on Corwood

Jandek on Corwood is a documentary about veteran reclusive folk/blues artist Jandek.

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K Records

K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington founded in 1982.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German), also called cheesiness or tackiness, is art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Legendary Stardust Cowboy

Norman Carl Odam (born September 5, 1947, in Lubbock, Texas), known professionally as the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, is an outsider performer who is considered one of the pioneers of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the 1960s.

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List of music considered the worst

The list of music considered the worst consists of albums or songs that have been considered the worst music ever made by various combinations of music critics, television broadcasters (such as MTV), radio stations, composers, and public polls.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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Lucia Pamela

Lucia Pamela (May 1, 1904 – July 25, 2002) was an American musician, nightclub singer, bandleader, and eccentric.

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Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known by his stage name, Marilyn Manson, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer, actor, painter, author, and former music journalist.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Naïve art

Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing).

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New Weird America

New Weird America is music derived mainly from psychedelic rock and folk groups of the 1960s and 1970s, including American performers Holy Modal Rounders and English and Scottish groups, such as Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, Donovan, and Comus.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Oar (album)

Oar is the only solo album by Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers.

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Philosophy of the World

Philosophy of The World is the only studio album by the all-female teen rock group The Shaggs, released in 1969.

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Primitivism

Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate "primitive" experience.

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R. Stevie Moore

Robert Steven Moore (born January 18, 1952), also known as R. Stevie Moore or RSM, is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter from Nashville who pioneered lo-fi/DIY music.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Robert Graettinger

Robert Frederick Graettinger (October 31, 1923 – March 12, 1957) was an American composer, best known for his work with Stan Kenton.

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Roger Cardinal

Roger Cardinal is the author of the book Outsider Art, published in 1972, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Skip Spence

Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Songs in the Key of Z

Songs in the Key of Z is a book and two compilation albums written and compiled by Irwin Chusid.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt.

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Syd Barrett

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beach Boys bootleg recordings

The Beach Boys' bootleg recordings are recordings of performances by the Beach Boys that attained some level of public circulation without being available as a legal release.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll

Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll is a 2003 documentary film directed by Daniel Bitton about rock musician and artist Wesley Willis, who died in 2003 at age 40.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2005 documentary film about the noted American musician Daniel Johnston.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Madcap Laughs

The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter Syd Barrett.

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The Nashville A-Team

The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Shaggs

The Shaggs were an American all-female rock and outsider music band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1968.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (sometimes stylised as WIRE) is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in May 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray.

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Tiny Tim (musician)

Herbert Buckingham Khaury (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996), known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, most of the time ukulele player, and musical archivist.

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Tower Records

Tower Records was a retail music chain based in Sacramento, California, USA.

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Trout Mask Replica

Trout Mask Replica is the third studio album by American rock band Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released as a double album on June 16, 1969 by Straight and Reprise Records, and produced by Beefheart's childhood friend Frank Zappa.

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Wadham College, Oxford

Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Wesley Willis

Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from Chicago.

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WFMU

WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 (at 90.1 as WMFU, which has a translator at 91.9 as W220EG) MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format.

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Wild Man Fischer

Lawrence Wayne "Wild Man" Fischer (November 6, 1944 – June 16, 2011) was an American street performer known for offering erratic, acapella performances of "new kinds of songs" for a nickel or a dime each on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.

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15 minutes of fame

15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music

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