Matthew Blackwell is an independent scholar and music critic based in Tenerife, Spain. In 2019, he completed his PhD in American Literature at the University of Iowa. He is currently working on a book manuscript, The Uncorrupted Canon: The Postwar Rise of American Scholarly Editing. His music criticism can be found at Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, and The Wire magazine.

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Matthew Blackwell is an independent scholar and music critic based in Tenerife, Spain. In 2019, he completed his PhD in American Literature at the University of Iowa. He is currently working on a book manuscript, The Uncorrupted Canon: The Postwar Rise of American Scholarly Editing. His music criticism can be found at Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, and The Wire magazine.

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