Music Criticism


The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Aja
Another Green World
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Shoot Out the Lights
Leticia Supple
The defining elements of criticism, the theory, the philosophy, and ideas behind it, are the same no matter what type of critique you're writing. ...more
Leticia Supple, Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers

Theodor W. Adorno
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
Theodor W. Adorno, Essays on Music

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