{"id":376,"date":"2011-01-24T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=376"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:53:38","slug":"writing_about_music_is_like_er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/01\/writing_about_music_is_like_er\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing about Music Is Like, er, Writing About Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here I was in my off-music-writing-hours having a grand old time blogging about my food adventures<\/a> with my fellow culinary adventurers over at Three Points Kitchen<\/a>, and it turns out I’m just a trend. A trend!<\/p>\n

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Food for Thinkers: When Music Writers Grow Up, They Become Food Writers<\/b>
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…Both music and food journalism deal with writing about something intangible–something invisible. Sure, sound waves exist, but you can’t see them. And taste; there’s no accounting for it. So how do you describe something that is not there? Analogy, comparison, hyperbole, these are often the (overused) tools of a music journalist. Music journalists coin phrases and make up terms for genres that have never existed before. Chill wave? Witch House? Coke Rap? We describe something by its effects, like describing the wind by the movement of the trees….<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On first pass through the entire piece<\/a>, I wasn’t convinced that this was the connection–for me, at least–but I appreciated the idea. On reflection, however, I considered the fact that I am not much interested in writing about the food “experience” so much as I’m into digging around in the process of how the food is made. And then I thought about how I write about music and the kinds of articles and interviews I produce, all those lines of questioning I pursue concerning method and motivation.<\/p>\n

Aww, man. I am riding a trend.<\/p>\n

I wonder who will be the first newspaper editor to get wind of this and decide that the food critic can handle covering fine dining and the symphony all in the same evening (and the same 800 words).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here I was in my off-music-writing-hours having a grand old time blogging about my food adventures with my fellow culinary adventurers over at Three Points Kitchen, and it turns out I’m just a trend. A trend! Food for Thinkers: When Music Writers Grow Up, They Become Food Writers …Both music and food journalism deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}