Bill F-W says:
> << No kidding. I read the first 15 albums listed and hit delete
> <g>.... Rock-crit snobbery plus, dare I suggest. >>
>
> phil -- you certainly may dare, but the more i think about these posts
> accusing kot of snobbery, the less comfortable i become. kot's
> job is to cover a broad range of popular music for the chicago tribune.
> notwithstanding its dependence on the post-punk rockcrit canon, his list
> reflects what he listens to and writes about. it's born of his efforts
> to understand what's happening in rock, pop, and hip hop and to convey
> that understanding to a general/mainstream audience. that strikes me as
> populist-leaning rather than provincial.
Well.... the problem for me isn't the contents of the list per se; I think
Bill's right on that score. The problem for me is that whoever was
responsible for titling the thing - "IN THE TWILIGHT DAYS OF THE '90S, HERE
ARE 50 REASONS WHY IT HAS BEEN A GREAT DECADE FOR MUSIC" - a leap has been
made from "rock, pop and hip hop" to "music," and the former doesn't cover a
number of streams of "music," including at least one, i.e., country, that
certainly appears to have some appeal to a general/mainstream audience.
It's the title's implicit equation of r,p&hh with all of music, or even all
of popular music (i.e., excluding classical), that frosts me.
Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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