WIY,
An appreciation for the finer things in life is hardly trashy. Going to a chasuna with rabbanim and a band playing ghetto music (albeit with Hebrew and Yiddish words) is trashy.
I am a baal tefillah, and I find my avodah to be far more uplifting and reflective of good musicianship than what I observe when I am away in other shuls. The cantorate is dead due to the yeshivos, Carlebach, and Debbie Friedman, unfortunately.
A Hugo novel is irrelevant to this discussion. Les Miserables discusses social ills, including prostitution; le havdil, the Torah talks about seduction, rape, adultery, and captive women.