Not sure if what you want is more critical theory-oriented approach to music in general (Adorno certainly spent a lot of time talking about pop music and its consumption, albeit not in a very complimentary way) or specifically a deconstructionist approach focused on talking about privilege/oppression? Not sure why the former is not more common, given the roots of critical theory. But the latter does exist to some extent in the progressive blogosphere: discussion of music lyrics, images in music videos, cultural appropriation, etc. Though I get the sense that it's not what you're looking for.
I do agree with your general thesis that music is more difficult to critically analyze because the medium is not entirely textual. I always found reading pop music criticism to be a pointless exercise because the language seemed imprecise (to the uninitiated me, in any case), whereas "classical" music criticism has an established canon vocabulary that I'm already familiar with, which in a way retextualizes the music.
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Date: 2010-02-01 11:29 pm (UTC)I do agree with your general thesis that music is more difficult to critically analyze because the medium is not entirely textual. I always found reading pop music criticism to be a pointless exercise because the language seemed imprecise (to the uninitiated me, in any case), whereas "classical" music criticism has an established canon vocabulary that I'm already familiar with, which in a way retextualizes the music.