Seriously, you guys. Carl Wilson writes about music like nobody’s business.
His amazing book, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, dissects not only the global ardor for Celine Dion, but also his own belief that he’s shouldn’t like her.
In the final chapters, he delivers an enlightening analysis of how “taste” is created, and he teases out the nobility in cultural objects that many people scorn.
He does similar work on his blog Zoilus. All in all, Wilson is exactly the type of critic I want to be: Elegant, friendly, and surprising. I can’t recommend him enough.
And his book is only $9.31 at Amazon. What are you waiting for?
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1 thedownpayment // Jul 27, 2008 at 10:36 pm
i dont know about this guy who wrote the book. i heard him on the cbc a few years ago and he came off across as too much of an elitist know it all.
2 thedownpayment // Jul 27, 2008 at 10:36 pm
correction: a few months ago. months.
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