single point in accordance with the bias of visual culture with 
its fixed point of view. The hi-fi changeover was really for music 
what cubism had been for painting, and what symbolism had 
been for literature; namely, the acceptance of multiple facets 
and planes in a single experience. Another way to put it is to 
say that stereo is sound in depth, as TV is the visual in depth.

     Perhaps it is not very contradictory that when a medium 
becomes a means of depth experience the old categories of 
“classical” and “popular” or of “highbrow” and “lowbrow” no 
longer obtain. Watching a blue-baby heart operation on TV is 
an experience that will fit none of the categories. When l.p. and 
hi-fi and stereo arrived, a depth approach to musical experience 
also came in. Everybody lost his inhibitions about “highbrow,” 
and the serious people lost their qualms about popular music 
and culture. Anything that is approached in depth acquires as