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The Oxford Companion to Music defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genr
Eduard Hanslick, an influential music critic of the 19th-century
Music journalism
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Music journalism is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century,
Music criticism
…expansion of interest in music and information media since the turn of the 20th century, the term has come to acquire the conventional meaning of journalistic reporting on musical performances. The musicologist Winton Dean has suggested that "music is probably the most difficult of the arts to criticise." Unlike the plastic or literary arts…
(From left to right) Music journalists Robert Christgau and Ann Powers and musicology professor Charles Kronengolm at the 2007 Pop Conference at Seattle's Experience Music Project
Hector Berlioz, active as a music journalist in Paris in the 1830s and 1840s
Richard Goldstein (pictured at the 2015 EMP Pop Conference) was the first American music critic to focus on rock music.
American pop music critic Ann Powers