Tag: Music
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Music of the year and the last record.
End-of-the-year lists are, needless to say, only partly about music. Instead, they are declarations of skilful consumption, performances of connoisseurial discernment and taste, as well as competitive claims to being one of the first to discover a certain musician or her music (parodied so perfectly in LCD Soundsystem’s 2002 song, ‘Losing my Edge’). They also demonstrate…
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Music for writing: Top 10
Academic writing can be frustrating, anxious, infuriating and slow – particularly when you are running up against deadlines you agreed to months before, and which you now realise were preposterously optimistic. However, it is also one of the pleasures of the job. I look forward to those days when I can shut myself in my…
Bruce Bennett 