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Let’s talk about Celine DionNo, this is not an opportune snark fest but a book recommendation (as recommended by Amanda in a great review). Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love:A Journey to the end of Taste is a little book by writer/blogger Carl Wilson. Carl, who is not a Celine Dion fan by any means, sets off exploring why Celine Dion so popular and ends up examining various concepts of taste and personal aesthetics. A difficult book to review as you are tempted to just quote the whole bloody thing. This passage is one that is still echoing after reading: You can’t go on suspending judgment forever - that would be to forgo genuinely enjoying music, since you can’t enjoy what you can’t like. But a more pluralistic criticism might put less stock in defending its choices and more in depicting its enjoyment, with all its messiness and private soul tremors - to show what it is like for me and to invite you to compare As Carl points out, this is happening on the internet and a good standard to blog by. Subjectivity is are more interesting than a faux objective approach. There is no way in hell I could review the upcoming AC/DC album shorn of the 30 years of worship. All I’ll be able to do is describe what is does to me. Now go order the book from Amazon. You won’t be sorry. |
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