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005 Michael Tau on Extreme Music

The Music Book Podcast

CHAPTER

How to Write a Book That's Not Academic

I think you did a really good job of balancing being real specific, like each section would basically focused on example releases and people behind them. Did you find that a challenge at all to sort of want to want to step back and but without it becoming sort of a really academic book where every 10 sentences you have to have some big overarching statement? Yeah. It's hard to strike that balance. I am I, you know, my day job is academic because I'm a graduate. But yeah, there's a dry academic tax or grace. And sometimes they're not the most fun to read.

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