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Cage wrote classical music. Spears is a singer not a song writer.
I tend to think of the philosophy of music to be the thoughts about how music affects us as a culture, physically, emotionally and mentally. This has nothing to do with the distinction between the high and low arts. Rather it posits that there is no distinction and that music (without words) is one of the most primal forms of communication. How does music affect us emotionally and why does it do this? How can a group of sounds and / or a series of sounds effect our emotions so instantaneously.
Take Cage's 4'33" for example. When this was performed for the first time some people were angered others were enlightened. Those angered believed that is was not music at all, how can silence be music. But using silence in the way Cage did created an emotive reaction whether the people new this or not.
Britney Spears' music elicits joy in some while in others it elicits anger and disgust.
If musicians are not aware of what music can do, the music will still create some sort of emotional response.
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