The ordinary and the cult: a cultural and contextual impact on classical music and pop music. Resumen. La musica es un arte sublime y libre que no puede ser encasillado en terminos sin sentido que hagan un enjuiciamiento del genero. Determinar estos juicios de valor permite replantear la incidencia de la cultura y el contexto en que fueron creados los dos generos (musica clasica-musica pop). Para tener mas claro a partir de que comienzan a surgir estas valoraciones de lo ordinario y lo serio. Palabras clave: musica Pop, musica clasica, cultura, arte, lo ordinario, lo culto. Abstract. Music is a sublime and free art that can not be enclosed in nonsense terms that make a judgment of the genre. Determine such value judgment allows reconsidering the impact of the culture and the context in which the two genres were created (classical music, pop music) in order to know about the beginning and origin of the judgments of ordinary and serious. Keywords: pop music, classical music, culture, art, the ordinary, the cult.