In some ways there are many similarities between fan writing and music journalism, the basic aim and goal of both is the same, to write about music. However the way in which this aim is reached differs between the two mediums.
Fan writing is written by fans, fans of the artists or genre that they writing about, therefore some of the critical slant that is found within journalism is lost, also as many fanzines are written or edited by an individual the benefit of having other opinions and inputs is removed also.
Yet the basis of the two forms, professional music journalism and amateur fan writing hold the same ideas:
“The fanzine shares much with is professional counterpart popular cultural journalism, For instance the roots of the popular press in the UK and the US lie not in professionalised journalism but in amateur underground press of the late 1960s.” (K Wahl-Jorgenson, T. Hanitsch, 2008, pg 270)
Therefore the differences that set the two apart are, the professional style of the music journalist, with an edge of reflection and critic, opposed with fan writing and the centred, individual style they offer. Fan writing is seen as the amateur side of music writing whereas the music journalist, with the perhaps more objective view is deemed professional journalism.
Bibliography:
K Wahl-Jorgenson, T. Hanitsch, The handbook of journalism studies, Taylor and Francis, 2008, pg 270
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