Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive.

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.