Popular Music: A Verbatim Extract from a Fictitious Graduate Seminar in Music Education

THE AUTHOR, who is associate professor of music, State Teachers College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, says: “This article, although in light dialogue form, is based upon an actual survey of 200 school children's music preferences made by me. As it stands, however, it does not give a complete picture of the survey's findings, which are, in toto, more optimistic than represented here.”