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Soul Music — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

03/09/10

I have something of a soft spot for Roger Scruton, as he’s one of the few analytic writers on aesthetics who actually discusses the aesthetic qualities of artworks. But this attempt to criticize pop music is an extraordinary example of building a detailed aesthetic argument on a fundamental misapprehension of its object (via Ian Mathers).

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