Goldberg seems to do a few things that Jones does not: it is interesting to see how atonal music was played only because of immense philanthropy from the wealthy and how different the view of classical artists is from modern.

However, there is a bog question about his study of modern art: why does Goldberg not focus on more popular forms of music and how their creators have changed? Logically, one would assume that changes there would have much greater reflection on changes in mass culture. One could especially look at metal and rap artists who seem to want consistently to create something more and more shocking with each new generation, and how these created music that had to be harder and faster and more politically radical and foul-mouthed than before.