Off The Page is the UK’s only literary festival devoted to music criticism and audio culture. Taking place in the seaside town of Whitstable in Kent, this unique weekend-long event looks to expand the discourse surrounding contemporary sound and music. In the 2011 edition of this festival, Kodwo Eshun launched a “first attempt at the history of the present” with a discussion of ten paragraphs of music criticism.

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