Outsider music
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Outsider music is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians. The term is usually applied to musicians who have little or no traditional musical experience, who exhibit childlike qualities in the
Street performer Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, sometimes cited as the "godfather of outsider music"
The Shaggs
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The Shaggs were an American rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire, in 1965. They comprised the sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin, Betty Wiggin, Helen Wiggin and, later, Rachel Wiggin. The Shaggs wrote
Outsider music
…self-expression." Specific acts that "significantly contributed―directly and indirectly―to contemporary popular music" include Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Shaggs, Harry Partch, Robert Graettinger, Tonetta and Daniel Johnston. Conversely, the book Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music (2007…
The Shaggs in 1968
Terry Adams of the band NRBQ (pictured in 2007) became a fan of the Shaggs and helped reissue Philosophy of the World in 1980.