Music Writing
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George Steiner spent an entire book trying to answer the question of “whether anything meaningful can be said (or written) about the nature and sense of music.” Dominic Green casts his eyes over the music mags of the 1980s and 1990s and asks the same question in a review of David Marsh’s Kick Out the Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes & Rallying Cries From 25 Years of Music Writing:
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