Richard Brookshier's Essay: Rock As Art

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on Choi Professor Deborah Heckert Wrt 102 Oct.26.2015 In the essays, “Rock as Art” by Camille Paglia and “All Junk, All the Time” by Richard Brookshier, two different viewpoints are expressed toward rocks. In “Rock as Art”, Paglia contends that it is time to accept rock musician as accepted artists and to treat rock as people treat other arts. However, in “All Junk, All the Time”, Brookshier introduces rock as junk because it’s crude and blank. Although both authors establish credibility, Pagila’s essay brigs forth a stronger emotional appeal; however, Brookshier’s essay is logically more appealing. In the essay “Rock as Art”, Pagila claims that people should take rock musicians as seriously as artists like composers