Does the Best Music Come From the Worst Times? & Guest Dr. Tom Rizzuto

This week, host Ian Heller opens with a question that music history keeps answering the same way: does great art actually need a crisis to be born from? Ian's answer might surprise you. Then Ian is joined by Tom Rizzuto, a professor of music history, guitar, and media at Molloy University and SUNY Old Westbury, whose TEDx talk "Why Streaming Can't Replace Physical Media" was an editor's pick on TED.com with over 150,000 views. His research and writing on music and cultural shifts has appeared in Discover Magazine, History Magazine, Arts Education Policy Review, and The Rock...