Alison Stone has written an engaging and well-informed book about the artistic value of contemporary popular music. It is a thoughtful and useful addition to the small handful of philosophical monographs about that topic. Stones book is an admirable engagement with the topic of popular music. (Theodore Gracyk, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 59 (4), October, 2019) This book outlines a persuasive esthetic of popular music rooted in the post-Kantian tradition, re-tools Adorno in order to allow his critique of popular music to be understood in relation to his wider authorship, and, most importantly, from the point of view of popular music scholarship, grounds that esthetic in an understanding of popular music . (Stan Erraught, Popular Music and Society, Vol. 42 (4), 2019) This book stands as a powerful, and articulate, rejoinder to any lingering suspicion among philosophers that popular music lacks sophistication, beauty, or expressive power. (Michael Gallope, Popular Music, Vol. 38 (3) October, 2019)