Originally Posted by A_Perfect_Sonnet

Way to recycle my own arguements back because you have no substance to yours. Did you notice on the bibliography that one of this "scholar's" sources is a book with the subtitle "The Corporate Construction of Childhood"? That should've tipped you off that the whole article was misinformed at best. And I believe you when you say this author was probably correct in what they wrote if they stick to the poor sources they cited, but it doesn't mean that any of the conclusions drawn are accurate by any means. Just because someone has a PhD in the field of "General Music" doesn't mean they know anything about it. In fact, since most of the professionals in their fields that looked over this article before it became so scholarly and journaly have little to no actual knowledge about the subject, they were willing to go along with it. Besides it's that same sheep-like attitude that causes other people to agree with it too. No one wants to be looked down at in their field of study after all; and so the chain goes on, one miseducated moron after another, until guess what? IT ENDS UP IN YOUR HANDS! So I say kudos to you Don, you sure know what's going down in today's music scene. Hopefully... some day, I will be able to follow pretentious scholarly journals down to the letter and use them in my misguided arguements against people on music forums myself.