This should all be true for film criticism, too, shouldn't it? There has long been a tradition of academic film criticism that has relatively little to do with the market. Music has just been lucky (?) for the past forty years that it hasn't been taken particularly seriously as an "art" form and therefore there was space for "popular criticism."
I'm a little surprised -- if it's true -- that Pitchfork longform reviews are "resented" per se. Isn't the resentment more about its (perceived) commercial influence, the idea that its canon and values, although different from Rollling Stone or the NME's, are just as rigid?
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Date: 2007-04-25 01:29 pm (UTC)I'm a little surprised -- if it's true -- that Pitchfork longform reviews are "resented" per se. Isn't the resentment more about its (perceived) commercial influence, the idea that its canon and values, although different from Rollling Stone or the NME's, are just as rigid?