Last December in their annual music issue, Oxford American lamented the demise of music criticism. But nonetheless here’s a collection of music related internet findings: Douglas Wolk discusses The Celestial Jukebox. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk (doesn’t punk, by nature, evade definition?). This blog catalogs library music, as in music found in libraries. Also, Sasha Frere-Jones reviews Britney Spears’s live act in the New Yorker.
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I hope the book–at least in the passages and pages when every arrow hits its mark and leaves a bloodstain–is a testament to the fact that punk cancels itself out at every turn. It is a dictionary of contradictions.
Music magazines may be dying, but I don’t think criticism is. Those 33 1/3 books have over 50 volumes and counting in the series.
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