Naomi reminds us that music in the 20th century pushes boundaries ... Anything deemed to have a ‘western’ or modern influence was considered inappropriate. After Stalin died, Shostakovich ...

Music was greatly influenced by the enormous political events which shook Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. Shostakovich, in particular, was persecuted by the Soviet regime when his music was ...

Though, besides these surface-level similarities, Skaggs and Hull produce traditional sounding bluegrass music with a modern twist. Skaggs did it in the ’70s and ’80s and Hull is doing it now.

In the 20th century, composers thought about different ... some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone. The sound came across to the listener as dissonance.