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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Are professional music critics losing their clout? |
| Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:26:11 -0400 |
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From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
> Stewart Mason wrote:
>> This argument assumes that we ever had clout to begin with, which I
>> don't think is necessarily true.
>
> I agree with Stewart. For example, back in the late 60s/early 70s I
> never read Rolling Stone for its reviews, but for the stories. Like
> Cameron Crowe's real Almost Famous article about the Allman
> Brothers.
> That was epic. Mostly what I looked for in reviews pre-internet was
> information, as facts about the performers/bands/artists were always
> hard to come by.
Exactly. I have always strongly believed that music critics are just
a source of consumer information, and in the end, we can't make
anybody open their wallets if they weren't pre-disposed. If I had
"clout" as a critic, however that's defined, then R. Stevie Moore
would be a damned sight more successful than he is.
> I didn't read Levitin's previous book, "This Is Your Brain on Music:
> The Science of a Human Obsession". Any observations from the
> Audities/Pop Underground clan?
Quite good. It's extremely theory-heavy, so parts of it can be
somewhat hard slogging, but I bought his general premise.
S
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