June 27, 2008
Are Liner Notes Dead? Does It Matter?
The context for pop music has shifted to the Web
"It's the pictures that got small," Norma Desmond famously quipped in Sunset Boulevard, when faced with the inconvenient truth that Hollywood had moved on without her. One frequently hears a parallel dismissal of contemporary popular music, but such laments tell us more about the insecurities and hidden emotional investments of the naysayers than about the music that has left them behind.
Popular music isn't
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