Summary Practice

This passage is about whether not popular musicians make 'art' or if it is a fad. The author attempts to dertermine the difference between 'serious' and 'popular' music. Serious music is 'explained by social conditions determining its production and subsequent consumption we are dismissed as philistines'. Moreover, popular music is 'taken to be good only for sociological theory'. The main point is to 'uncover the social forces concealed in the talk of "trancendent" values'.