From the Prohibition-era speakeasies, to Studio 54, to CBGB, to Stonewall, American bars and nightclubs have been the site of counter-culture revolutions that have dismantled boundaries between race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and, as author Lewis A. Erenberg stated, "even between life and art".
What unites the Absolute Ensemble performers, the diverse composers they play and the group's intrepid music director is a shared determination to dismantle the boundaries between different styles of contemporary music, boundaries they see as arbitrary and confining.
Maybe accentuating his body and its frailties was just another way in which he dismantled the boundaries between himself and his audience.
The "pulpit freedom Sunday" participants, on the other hand, seem eager to dismantle the boundaries between religion and government so as to impose their own way of thinking on not only members of their congregations, but on all Americans.
Bowie's soulful music, gender-bending image, and fascination with other worlds provided an alternate model for what life could be one that dismantled the boundaries between male and female, black and white, human and alien, ancient and modern.
In the face of a growing movement to dismantle discipline boundaries, there is evidence from clinical practice that inadequate pharmacology knowledge is a growing concern, raising the question of the true role of disciplines and in particular the integrity of pharmacology as foundation material essential to safe and effective practice.
Sophisticated indigenous socio-political systems were dismantled, arbitrary geographical boundaries drawn up and scores of different ethnic groups lumped together with little regard for their different languages and customs.
It dismantled cultural mores and boundaries on a macro-cosmic level but also inspired a new wave of musicians through style, metre and imagery.
Begin by dismantling the chicken.
