A review by dustymantle
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music by Yuval Taylor, Hugh Barker

3.0

I learned I should have read this book ten years ago, so that I could have quoted chunks of it during a time when my life was more involved with others' impassioned diatribes about 'realness'. That said, the book as a whole didn't leave me with that much of an impression, but maybe it was just that I read it in a rather piecemeal fashion. It's possible that it aligned with my own views enough that I didn't become all that engaged. Definitely a useful object, and it's likely that a second reading might make its assertions more enduring in my mind.