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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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Contemporary music criticism has often been labeled rock criticism because rock music has been the most important paradigm in popular music since WW II. Allmusic.com even lists disco as a subgenre of rock. Prototypical voices in rock criticism are Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus.

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