This essay looks at whether book learning or trade learning is better for a critic. Actually, it turns out that neither of the two is what makes a critic great. When I was an undergraduate at uni, from 1999 until 2002,…
REBLOGGED: Push-Button Professionalism: The origin and evolution of the role of professional music critics
Written by Tom Valcanis. Here’s a snippet from Tom’s first essay in our collaborative essay project. If you write on the internet, you’re blogging. There’s an indissoluble link between the two terms – if you have an opinion and have the…