Word: arnoid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structures that are an essential part of the blues, folk, and rock. Bur tradition and form are as essential to our music as radical experimentation; no music can possibly escape the culture from which is emerges. Rockwell's discussion of serialism--a non-traditional musical system championed by Arnoid Schoenberg--is prefaced by the revealing remark. "But it was serialism more than populism that impeded the evolution of truly American music." Rockwell can't decide which side he is on, the side of serialist Milton Babbitt of Princeton--who once wrote an essay entitled. "Who; Cares if You Listen...
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