A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schoenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem -Jabberwocky- are -unquestionably shielded- by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting -the freedom of speech, - even though none involves what we typically think of as speech--the use of words to convey meaning.
As a legal matter, the Court's...
A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsense The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jacks...
