Remembering The Village Voice, Music Criticism's Crucible: Part 1

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Forty years of writers and editors share memories about helping invent a language to talk about music, and the artists they critiqued — some grateful, some not. Guests: Robert Christgau, Jon Pareles, Nelson George, Kyle Gann and Joe Levy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you're addicted to Beef Stallion of the
0:05.0	year of music news and criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:09.0	I get the boost this go. I get the boosters boosting. I get computers puten. Y'all get shot at for me. I do the recruit and I do the students. I nurture their brain. I the brain I'm moving the movement
0:24.0	whoever Buddhist a Buddha that's Judas a Judah
0:27.0	I got Lougir the root
0:29.0	hit from Buddha the tutor to tutor
0:30.0	chick from Huda
0:32.0	I put two and producers we're back. We're back.
0:35.0	We're back.
0:36.0	Had to take a little vacation.
0:38.0	Thank you to everyone in Santa Fe and New Mexico.
0:42.0	Had a tremendous time down there last week.
0:44.8	Shouts out to BMI and to Ileana who had a beautiful wedding.
0:48.8	And you know we stay up in the Santa Fe, Vintage Warehouse, obviously, salute to Scott.
0:54.3	We see you.
0:55.5	While I was on vacation, I learned that the Village Voice
0:59.5	was shutting down for good, not just online.
1:01.9	It already shut down the print edition, but was shutting down for good.
1:04.8	quick sidebar if anybody has a plug on a red village voice box please hit me with an
1:09.5	email at popgasnytimes.com.
1:12.0	The voice was incredibly formative for me both as a reader and a writer.
1:16.6	I used to read the voice when I would come back and forth from from Brooklyn to high school in Manhattan, it was stunning to see criticism about the music I cared about and also a bunch of music I didn't care about, but still criticism being done at that high a level.
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