Ben Ratliff Wants You to Set Off and Experience Music's 'Quality of Motion'

Ben Ratliff Wants You to Set Off and Experience Music's 'Quality of Motion'

Music critic Ben Ratliff's book "Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening" which came out last month from Graywolf Press, is, as the title suggests, about running and listening to music. Each of the book's 39 chapters is an essay about a run near his home by Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, and the critical notes on the music he listened to while he ran—why did Ice Spice switch from second to third person in the first couplet of "Munc…