Scott Johnson 55: "No currently living segment of the field of composed music is fully analogous to the European art music of recent centuries, and a new cultural organism capable of filling that niche cannot be put together using only the leftover pieces of the old, because one very big piece is missing: the extinct popular musics which constantly fed 'serious' music with raw material for its abstractions and transformations."
56: "[There] was a period when serious and popular, professional and amateur music-making were related dialects; is it completely coincidental that this very music continues to dominate our concert halls?"