Meta-Chatter: The Best of Slate?s Year-End Roundups

?The Music Club, 2011,? by Nitsuh Abebe, Ann Powers, Jody Rosen, Jonah Weiner, and Carl Wilson. Slate?s synopsis of the year in music continues, touching on the ubiquity of the stutter, the usefulness of the whistle, and the inanity of the Bon Iver lyric. Plus, find out how expectant mother Beyonc? melds the personas of ?Roberta Flack, Betty Draper, and Kali, Giver and Destroyer of Life? in her trailblazing fourth album.?

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