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Yeah, I think we're kind of on the same wavelength, I agree with all that has been said. I always think of that quote of mysterious providence, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture". I heard this was attributed to Zappa, some say Elvis Costello, others say Laurie Anderson. Whatever. The ways it's often used is to mean 'writing about journalism is a detraction, or better, is unfaithful to the act of listening to music (ergo, a miscegenation of two irreconcilable mediums)'. What I like about certian journalists (and Coley is a better instance of this than Swells) is when they realise that writing/ reading is never going to be reconcilable with listening/ experiencing music - that is, they make little effort to explain the music, they talk from a purely personal point of view - they make transparent their nominal stances and do so quickly and eruditely, and go about making journalism a (pseudo-) artform in its own right, rather than the parasitic journalism of 'effective' adjectives.
Insofar as I have (hopefully) established my stance here, I provide a defence of journalists being transparently malicious in the name of journalism becoming prose.
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