1) I'd have to bounce this one up to Tari as you're right, I was parroting her term without really assigning it a meaning. XD; Or rather, I assume with a fair bit of confidence we both mean "making explicit and discussing the dynamics of privilege/oppression as expressed via and around art (music)", but I don't know why that's "deconstructionist". In the case of Vampire Weekend, I mean, it's just there.
2) There is definitely a canon of stuff we hate. (But it may not be have the longevity of the canon of stuff we love; reading reviews from years past, the referential plaudits tend to make more sense than the referential disses. After some time it turns into either stuff we love or stuff we forget, I suspect.) But I didn't mean canon in the way we talk about "pop canon", i.e. the actual music/acts, but "canon vocabulary" of criticism/review - set of words and verbal constructions - analogous to that used in classical music (what Tari was talking about). So in your example, the canon I mean isn't "Khaled" but the "this is a ____ on [ref. artist] ____" phrase.
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Date: 2010-02-03 09:40 pm (UTC)2) There is definitely a canon of stuff we hate. (But it may not be have the longevity of the canon of stuff we love; reading reviews from years past, the referential plaudits tend to make more sense than the referential disses. After some time it turns into either stuff we love or stuff we forget, I suspect.) But I didn't mean canon in the way we talk about "pop canon", i.e. the actual music/acts, but "canon vocabulary" of criticism/review - set of words and verbal constructions - analogous to that used in classical music (what Tari was talking about). So in your example, the canon I mean isn't "Khaled" but the "this is a ____ on [ref. artist] ____" phrase.