“Now, some people believe that this topic was dispatched by the late political philosopher Allan Bloom, whose best-selling critique of higher education, The Closing of the American Mind, contains a chapter on the pernicious effects of rock. But as I shall show later, that celebrated chapter displays a near-perfect ignorance of American popular music (whose history hardly begins with rock), and a disappointingly superficial grasp of the European musical classics. Bloom rushed into the critical vacuum, but he didn’t fill it” (Martha Bayles, Hole in our Soul, p. 4).
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