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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. derogatory A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.
Etymologies
- rock + -ism; see rock music. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One of the ground stones of modern day "rockism" is the illusion that popular songs with a more realistic, more risky and more open approach to love have started with Rock'n”
“Kalefeh Sanneh wrote a great piece for the NYTimes on "rockism" as a racist, sexist, homophobic, pervasive phenomenon”
“Clues to what sort of things to look for in the Kaminer era can be found in the annals of TimesPast: provocative critical essays from our critics (think of Michael Kimmelman on museums and money, or Kelefa Sanneh on rockism); and richly marinated narrative journalism of the sort so often delivered to our brunch tables by Dan Wakin, Randy Kennedy, and Jesses Green and McKinley, among others.”
“Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling?”
Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? | FreakyTrigger
“Dusted Reviews Artist: Yeasayer Album: Odd Blood Label: Secretly Canadian Review date: Feb. 8, 2010 ... music message boards were dominated by debates about rockism, which roughly means the application of the values behind”
“Perhaps it was a fraught discussion on rockism that has brought forth tensions in the Putin-Medvedev partnership.”
“I see now how cleverly they mashed up rockism and synthetic clangour.”
“With one album, Radiohead shattered the elitist rockism that had reigned the '90s, from grunge through britpop to Radiohead themselves.”
“If you're interested in - O.K., mildly obsessed with - rockism, you can find traces of it just about everywhere.”
“From punk-rock rags to handsomely illustrated journals, rockism permeates the way we think about music.”
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uselessness Sep 21, 2007
john I first heard this word in an excellent and now famous essay by Kelefa Sanneh, The Rap Against Rockism.
From the essay: "Music critics have a word for this kind of verdict, this knee-jerk backlash against producer-powered idols who didn't spend years touring dive bars. Not a very elegant word, but a useful one. The word is rockism, and among the small but extraordinarily pesky group of people who obsess over this stuff, rockism is a word meant to start fights." Sep 21, 2007