Rite riot explained

This is from an older Radio Lab broadcast, but I just heard it for the first time today. Jonah Lehrer examines why the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring incited a riot through the lens of neurology. Our neurons apparently have the ability to adapt to strange and new sounds. Now to just get people to listen.

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