aesthetics

  • Bad Music, Good Music: How We Assess Sound

    How do you know when some music is just plain bad?  Not bad as in really good (“That was badass!”) or badly performed, badly executed, but just stylistically bad–bad as in: “That’s terrible, awful music.”  What do we mean when we utter such a harsh critique?  And–to paraphrase Napoleon Dynamite’s brother in the scene in… Continue reading