Well maybe not 'arts' ... But in the baroque era, it was a 'new thing' to write music that was not written for god (although there was a lot of that as well) R

Well maybe not 'arts' ... But in the baroque era, it was a 'new thing' to write music that was not written for god (although there was a lot of that as well) Remember all that Gregorian chanting? Well for a while there in the medieval era, music could only be gospel in nature. Classical composers broke all the very strict Baroque conventions. Romantic composers crashed the Classical guys conventions. Modern composers broke everything. And now - we do have a lot of 'art bands' ... i.e. the musical equivalent of Pollock paintings. It's been around since the 60's but maybe popularized a bit later on, and since computers ... well ... it's almost common. And music and film have undergone the same, globalist total 'de-culturalization' as have other art forms. To appeal to an ever wider audience, big films have to appeal to the 'global lowest common denominator' which is someone who is barely literate, has almost no education, likes explosions. so we get Transformers = no plot. Just long action sequences stitched together with a few words spoken by non-national, non-ethnic, non-demoninational characters with nothing to say. And Taylor Swift. :) ... though there is still a ton of good music and cinema created today.