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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Studio 360: Culture Shock 1913 Author: Kurt Andersen Narrator: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 12-28-13 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, American viewers confronted Cubism and abstraction for the first time. In Vienna, the audience at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinskys new ballet The Rite of Spring burst on stage with inflammatory results. Culture Shock 1913 tells the stories behind these and other groundbreaking events that year, and goes back to consider what led to this mad, Modernist moment. "I think in a lot of ways it was just the beginning of a century just of absolute chaos and nightmare, and as so often, the artists heard it an