A rock band is five musicians and kills your ears so you don't care. The loudest noise in 19th century Europe was distant cannons. There is some hope in that the electronic media's cost, like TV and the movies, has gone up faster then the live music recently but that is probably a fluke. I would suggest that you take another look at state support for public goods industries that have values outside of simple profit and loss. The day of big government and big private enterprise will return and the little guy will not be tied to private enterprise.
Democratic government supported by an informed population is the only answer.
Its complexity is relative to the sophistication of the composer and his audience. So just like IBM, Art must have consumers with a willingness to learn its abstractions. Modern neo-liberal economics has eliminated so many of the reasons that we consider life to have meaning that it is amazing that it is still here. People like Friedman and Weber are praised for their genius but the world they inhabit is barren. Either he's emotionally ill or he is not a genius, just clever like a savant.