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?
A few ppl do the former (eg. the Reynolds dude I mentioned - others have grounding in this stuff but don't deploy it, I think), and a lot of ppl will touch on the latter, but kinda badly. And by that I mean "way more badly than the general standard for media fandom meta", which I talk about like it's a high bar but really isn't. I mean. XD;
I'm perhaps not that interested in the deconstructionist approach etc. XD;;; But I'd like to see it addressed well, or not at all.
(My sense is that the "canon vocabulary" of pop music criticism exists in practice and is one of dense context-establishing referentialism - this thing that you may not have heard sounds like this and that which you may have heard and involves this other person whose other work you may be familiar with. But you still need to have heard stuff - a lot of stuff, even.)
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A few ppl do the former (eg. the Reynolds dude I mentioned - others have grounding in this stuff but don't deploy it, I think), and a lot of ppl will touch on the latter, but kinda badly. And by that I mean "way more badly than the general standard for media fandom meta", which I talk about like it's a high bar but really isn't. I mean. XD;
I'm perhaps not that interested in the deconstructionist approach etc. XD;;; But I'd like to see it addressed well, or not at all.
(My sense is that the "canon vocabulary" of pop music criticism exists in practice and is one of dense context-establishing referentialism - this thing that you may not have heard sounds like this and that which you may have heard and involves this other person whose other work you may be familiar with. But you still need to have heard stuff - a lot of stuff, even.)