The Da Capo Best Music Writing 2010

The Da Capo Best Music Writing 2010 Ann Powers, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor Hardcover; 352 pages ISBN: 0306819252 Da Capo Press 2010

This is an editorial disguised as a review written by a music writer about a collection of articles written by other music writers, compiled and edited by…who else? Another music writer. This may be the craziest, most useless daisy-chain of an intellectual (and I say that carefully) exercise ever conceived. This is not analysis or even meta-analysis. It is para-meta-analysis. Self- aggrandizing and indulgent, why would anyone want to read such drivel (outside of the pathetic music geek concerning himself with matters no one, save he, cares about)? I mean, to a reading public, as a whole (and dwindling), of what interest is music writing that is not directed specifically toward a given reader’s musical interest? Why read a collection of articles primarily about hip hop when classical music is the reader’s big jones…