1. 'Historically important', 'innovative', 'revolutionary', 'seminal' and 'influential' share no causal interdependence.
2. 'Historical importance' does not necessarily keep a piece of work from aging.
3. The question "What's interesting?" only partially marks the line between pop and avant-garde.
4. There is no such thing as aesthetics outside historicism and society.
5. Learn as much as possible about a record's place in history. Then ignore as much as necessary to judge the record.
6. Are you judging the record or the record's reception?
7. Never take any sort of music for granted.
8. The roads to greatness form a rhizome.
9. Whatever you do, put a frame around it.

4.1 Classifying music exclusively by sonic traits is like classifying texts exclusively by content.
5.1 Genres waiting for descriptions: [List430357]

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