Tag: Andrew Barker

• Generic Fit

  

  This makes the pop song an indispensable mirror: The way in which a listener imposes himself upon the text, or transforms the text from generic to specific, shows that listener something about himself. He learns his yearnings, his sadnesses, his loves; he recognizes an emotional life which is otherwise elusive, and solidifies in time an…

  suspendedreason

  July 8, 2016

  Essays

  Andrew Barker, Bourdieu, Carl Wilson, common ground, distillation, familiarity, fit, fitness, folk, generic fit, genericism, indeterminacy, Interpretation, Jürgen Schmidhuber, literature, music, Nicholas Sparks, platitudes, pop music, poptimism, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Perry, The Crystals, Thomas Kinkade, visual art