Sep 25
In my most recent addition to the collaborative essay project, I mentioned that analysis and assessment of a work of art on its own merits is what defines critique. It’s not easy to turn your mind to music criticism when you’re reading literary, theatre, film, or art critics. Very few music critics are held in high …
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Sep 25
Written by Tom Valcanis. His third essay in our collaborative series. One of the ironies of “critical rock journalism,” writes cultural studies theorist Andy Brown is “that it is operated in a hegemonic fashion across the popular music market in the period of its pomp, willfully obscuring its actual commercial dynamics and its cultural and …
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Sep 21
This essay looks at whether book learning or trade learning is better for a critic. Actually, it turns out that neither of the two is what makes a critic great. When I was an undergraduate at uni, from 1999 until 2002, editing and professional writing was fairly well at its peak in terms of tertiary offerings. …
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Aug 22
What happens when young critics receive – or do not receive – publicity materials? And are they necessary? Let’s find out. If you’ve ever worked as a journalist in the music industry, you would know exactly what I’m talking about when I refer to a one-sheet. If you don’t know what a one-sheet is, here’s …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2011/08/using-the-force-or-not-the-place-of-publicity-in-contemporary-music-criticism/
Aug 17
Content is king! In this early part of the 21st century, publishers and editors of rock mags function in a world that thirsts for content. The very real risk with this demand is that quantity rarely equals quality. With millions of blogs, blog-like professional magazines, online counterparts to print magazines, and all of their socially …
Permanent link to this article: http://biodagar.com/2011/08/the-state-of-play-balancing-critical-rock-journalism-with-demands-for-content/
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