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Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate.(Book Review)
Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. Edited by Christopher Washburne and Maiken Derno. New York: Routledge, 2004. [x, 379 p. ISBN 0415-94366-3. $24.95.] Illustrations, index.
Every now and then a book comes along that articulates something that is embedded in our collective cultural conscience that we rarely see publicly discussed. Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate is such a volume. It is one thing to hear a song and impose our judgments on it, conditioned or otherwise; but to publish a scholarly work about such a subversive topic as this, that in many ways underscores our personal opinions about what is bad music, well, that is quite another undertaking. But ...
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