The erudite and popular culture and music.

When we think about concepts like erudite and popular we feel tempted to consider them radically different like black from white or good from bad, but if we analyse the question carefully we will see that both concepts have a lot in common and sometimes their limits can be quite ambiguous. In general, we consider erudite what is only accessible to a privileged class and popular what is accessible to the majority of people. Commonly, …

…and sold all around the world, there are not distinctions between erudite and popular when the matter is to make money. We are also living a period in which contrast is not so obvious anymore, artists are combining stiles, everything is valid to please the audience, we have art for all tastes and stiles, everything is possible, everything is available and concepts like erudite and popular are becoming more and more invalid and old fashion.