Our perception and knowledge of most of these things has been filtered through a fairly narrow, ubiquitous and recent cultural criticism. What's more, the cano

Our perception and knowledge of most of these things has been filtered through a fairly narrow, ubiquitous and recent cultural criticism. What's more, the canonization of these thinga has caused our modern media to refrence and reflect them. Meaning we likely have a predisposition towards them as their structure and tropes are familiar to us. Your popular measure of quality is terribly tainted. How much time have you personally spent digging into obscure classical music or have you mostly listened to the cannon? I can say I certainly have stuck to the big names. But the big names of today weren't universally heralded in their time. In fact the reputation of art changes with the time.