Now, I am not suggesting that if you like the likes of those mentioned above, you are a musical imbecile. Not at all. Music is like anything else. You listen to what you like, good or bad. You can like Milli Vanilli if you want, and really only have to defend yourself in a few circles.
Music thrives even on our campus.
Local bands, like the ones who recently played at Wolfstock, and our own collegiate choir, band, and symphony make their music, love to perform, and continue a tradition that has existed for thousands of years in every culture. I judge music on three levels. Two, poetics, which can apply to both instrumental and lyrical music. Really, there is very little music I will not listen to. My music collection contains everything from Sinatra to Soul Coughing, Beethoven to Beatles to Beck, or Duran Duran to DMX to Dave Brubek to Dido.