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Mike Harris
Mike Harris is a freelance writer and professor in the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management department at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches a course on cultural criticism. Prior to that, he was editor of the Illinois Entertainer, a monthly magazine with a circulation of 80,000. A well-known music critic, Harris has also written for Rolling Stone, Spin, Chicago Magazine, and other regional and national publications.
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Music critic and teacher Mike Harris laments the decline of quality in music criticism, weighing in on the pros and cons of both the content and the distribution channels currently available for music discourse.



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December 2007
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