The Kitsch Show!
2: Roger Scruton , visiting professor of philosophy at Birkbeck, argues that kitsch is both corrupt and corrupting. He believes that it is the product of a society without soul and that it legitimises Philistinism and fake sentiment: it threatens art.
Using musical examples from Steve Reich to the score of the film
Titantic, he agrues that genuine human feeling, aspirations and belief need to be retrieved from sentimental pap.