Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Music Criticism and Politics
I'd been reading sounds & fury occasionally, as the author had some interesting things to say about music criticism, and he seems like quite the hardcore Wagnerian. But, then he posted his "contribution" to the debate on this year's presidential election; yuck. Now I can't read his writings on other topics without cringing. I sort of wish he had kept his politics to himself.
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I believe The Medium Lobster would agree with him. And who am I to question the wisdom of The Medium Lobster?
Heh, good point, although if that's what it takes to be hardcore, I'm going to stick to being a Skinemax Wagnerian. I wondered while writing this post if I was being a hypocrite by letting this guy's politics get in the way of my thoughts on his other writing, while I rarely think about Wagner's bigotry when listening to his music. I guess the difference stems from the politics having more practical relevance to me and from liking Wagner's music way more than anything on that blog.
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