 Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to see these positions as mutually exclusive, rather than complementary.“Elitists” are denounced as “high brow snobs” advocating an esoteric culture which focuses on art music and the types of art seen in museums and galleries; populists are dismissed as “pandering philistines” promoting a trivialized and commercialized culture, as they endorse the value of popular music and folk art.However, these mutual stereotypes belie complementariness between two bookends of an artistically autonomous and politically accountable cultural policy.