German Philosopher who commented on popular culture and consumerism.
Quoted in "Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies" by Simon Frith
Theories on popular music here (start on p.325)
"If one seeks to find out who "likes" a commercial piece, one cannot avoid the suspicion that liking and disliking are inappropriate to the situation, even if the person questioned clothes his reactions in those words. The familiarity of the piece is a surrogate for the quality ascribed to it. To like it is almost the same thing as to recognize it.... preference in fact depends merely on biographical details or on the situation in which things are heard"
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