【单选题】

The primary purpose of the passage is to
A．(A) analyze the total impact that popular music had on Adorno's musical criticism

B．(B) review the attempt of Adorno's scholarship to study counter-cultural music
C．(C) correct the failure of Adorno's theories to explain the manipulation of meaning by the ruling classes
D．(D) survey the successes and failures of Adorno's musicological theory
E．(E) critically assess Adorno's analysis of American music in general