Summary Practice (Exercise 3.4)

Frith's piece on the sociological worth of popular music creates an opposite to the musical genre, calling it "serious music," and discusses the differences in their analytical values.  Frith argues that popular music is reflective of the societal environment of it's time, but that the worth of serious music is "transcendent" of this condition.  The article states that the analyses of these two vastly different worlds of music must themselves be vastly different.