More than what Ratliff actually had to say about any of the music, I appreciated the framework of approaches he takes for listening, as arbitrary as it is. He doesn't get the collector mentality, but at least he addresses it. Sun Ra: not mentioned at all.
Reading List 2016-04-04:
*Costello, Elvis. Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (started)
*Cronin, Justin. The Passage (started)
*Ratliff, Ben. Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (finished)
*Van den Berg, Laura. Find Me (finished)
*Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything (in progress)
*Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (in progress)
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