So he thought, well, I’m fairly intelligent and I like heavy metal, why don’t I write about it? So he did. In the introduction to Chuck Klosterman’s heavy metal odyssey Fargo Rock City, Klosterman claims that music criticism has been largely restrained to pop, blues, jazz, and the like, while intellectual criticism about heavy metal has been pretty moot. The arguments are clear: (1) a lot of people speak English, some people speak Japanese (2) if analyzing involves deconstructing the music within a cultural context, the Japanese culture is too far removed to do any of the analyzing unless you were born and raised within that culture. There are of course, numerous problems with why criticism of Japanese music is in absentia, the most important which is obvious: everything about music criticism has stemmed around the Western world of music. I might even venture to say I wish it existed at all. I wish that the concept of serious Japanese pop and rock criticism was, on the whole, more prevalent.
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