« Home | Charts... OF DEATH! » | Other people's horns » | If you think everything is yours... » | Final word? » | Just call me Mr. Butterfingers » | You utter piece of fuck » | "Neither more nor less than illness, but illness m... » | Lines in the sand » | Light at night » | What if we were that good? » 

Thursday, June 16, 2005 

New forms

Excellent thought provoking essay/post by Alex Thomson over at NYLPM. It feels more and more as if we're at some sort of pivot-point, not so much in criticism, as in how we conceive of criticism (well, "conceive of" may be a bit vague, but I'm not sure how to be more precise). I think/hope one thing that we'll see more of, and see discussed more often, is not only the sort of "narrowcasting" Alex talks about, but a move to more personal criticism as well (which is, of course, one of the things Stylus tries to do, and one of the reasons I gravitated to it (I think)); just as fewer and fewer writers are going to try (or at least try and succeed) to be "central" in the way Alex talks about, maybe they'll stop trying to be so "objective"?

(Yes, objectivity in music criticism is good, but also bad, that's a wholly separate topic and one I don't have the time/desire to write about right this instant, partly because it's so complicated...)



Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.

About me

Ian Mathers is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Stylus, the Village Voice, Resident Advisor, PopMatters, and elsewhere. He does stuff and it magically appears here.

Contact Me:
imathers at gmail dot com

My profile
Powered by Blogger
and Blogger Templates