Music: The Third Step in Line of Despair

Without sound principles there is no way to answer modern problems. The doorway into the line of despair in music is Debussy, though it probably began late in the life of Beethoven. After Debussy, comes the 'muse concert' of Pierre Schaffer which was not electronic sound but a kind of distortion. This showed that you can't trust your ears. The African American man's jazz was picked up by the white man who took it into despair with faceless characteristics.