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| From | Mike Bennett <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Are professional music critics losing their clout? |
| Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:22:50 -0500 |
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> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:26:11 -0400
> From: craigtorso@verizon.net
> Subject: Re: Are professional music critics losing their clout?
> To: audities@smoe.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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