The Narrative of Music

For those who didn’t know, over the past year I spent roughly 6 months working, in some capacity for the music website Pitchfork. Four of those months I spent as an intern, and two of them I was brought on part-time as an assistant editor. For much of the six-month span I did a lot of work in the Forkcast section of the site. The Forkcast section is, essentially, the area that Pitchfork uses to highlight new bands, or new music and videos from already established artists that aren’t quite high-profile enough to make the News section, like an interesting Dâm-Funk live video, or a new track from Brooklyn duo Blondes.

What I realized during my time there is that dance music, as an entire genre, has largely slipped by me.