Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen

Examines the parallel histories of modern art and modern music and examines why one is embraced and understood and the other ignored, derided or regarded with bewilderment, as noisy, random nonsense perpetrated by, and listened to by the inexplicably crazed.

Themes
musicart
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
short · 135 pages

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