Tag: folk

• 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

• Regarding Rockism, pt 1: Black Truths, Noble Savages

  I. Introduction Controversy over Lana Del Rey has centered around everything from her singing ability and views on feminism to her interview last year with the Guardian in which she opined on musicians who have died young. (“Glamorous?” she was asked. “Ummmm, yeah.”) But within music criticism circles, one of the primary topics of conversation has been…

  suspendedreason

  November 23, 2015

  Essays

  authenticity, blues, fetish, folk, Lana Del Rey, meta-criticism, music, music criticism, Nitsuh Abebe, nostalgia, Pitchfork, pop music, poptimism, rockism