Bill Pirkle: >Could someone enlighten me as to what public service music critics perform. >How is life better with them here? What kind of music world would it be if >there were no music critics? Musical criticism is just another literary gender. It has its own aesthetics and one can enjoy it in itself. It implies, of course, that it can be subject of criticism, as every other discourse. In the worst cases, it becomes a branch of soft journalism, and here lies a confusion: a true musical critic is not intended to be a public server. Does people who publish poetry at the newspapers be reputed as "public servers" too?. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]