George Plasketes

This collection suffers a bit from the “dancing about architecture” problem, especially in the beginning and ending essays. But there were some interesting bits about the ways covers transform, or don’t transform, the songs (that is, the performances of the songs that came first—I liked the point made by Deena Weinstein that one can only have a “cover” when one’s reference point is the sound recording rather than the musical work, because every performance of a musical work is just that; we don’t think of orchestras covering Beethoven’s Fifth).… (plus d'informations)