Identify the features the author claims constitute a definition of “schlock music.”

Read the article “In Defense of Schlock Music.” Based on what you have learned about the different kinds of definitions, undertake the following critical analysis tasks.

Please number the items in your response and complete them in the order listed.

1. Identify the features the author claims constitute a definition of “schlock music.” Here you are looking to pick out the essential characteristics, not the examples.
2. Critique at least two of the features. Comment on how they function as parts of a definition, and on whether you find those parts essential to defining “schlock music.”
3. Evaluate the definition overall, commenting especially on whether you think it is an adequate and effective definition of the term “schlock music.”