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Dada movement

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An early 20th-century avant-garde movement that rejected logic and embraced absurdity, chance, and anti-art in poetry

Detailed Definition
The Dada movement was an early 20th-century avant-garde reaction against rationalism and bourgeois aesthetics, embracing chaos, absurdity, and anti-art through nonsense verse, sound poetry, and typographical experimentation; poets like Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara rejected traditional syntax and meaning, using chance operations and irrational juxtapositions to protest war and cultural decay.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hugo Ball’s sound poem “Karawane” rejects meaning for phonetic chaos; Tristan Tzara’s “To Make a Dadaist Poem” instructs cutting up newspaper words; Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate” uses nonsense syllables as anti-art; Mina Loy’s “Brancusi’s Golden Bird” blends absurdity with modernist critique.
Additional Notes
Dada movement (1916–1920s) rejected logic and aesthetics in favor of absurdity, chance, and anti-art; its poetic legacy includes sound poems, cut-ups, and deliberate nonsense to critique war and bourgeois culture.
Also Known As
Dadaism anti-art poetry surrealist revolt nihilist verse Anti-art movement Zürich-Paris movement
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