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- noun derogatory A kind of
music snobbery that viewsrock music asnormative and values music with "authentic " production values over modern "manufactured " andelectronic forms.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kalefeh Sanneh wrote a great piece for the NYTimes on "rockism" as a racist, sexist, homophobic, pervasive phenomenon
Feministe 2009
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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
Expecting Rain 2009
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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.
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Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling?
Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? | FreakyTrigger 2004
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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
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With one album, Radiohead shattered the elitist rockism that had reigned the '90s, from grunge through britpop to Radiohead themselves.
The Line Of Best Fit 2010
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I see now how cleverly they mashed up rockism and synthetic clangour.
BC Bloggers 2009
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With one album, Radiohead shattered the elitist rockism that had reigned the '90s, from grunge through britpop to Radiohead themselves.
The Line Of Best Fit 2009
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If you're interested in - O.K., mildly obsessed with - rockism, you can find traces of it just about everywhere.
Feministe 2009
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Perhaps it was a fraught discussion on rockism that has brought forth tensions in the Putin-Medvedev partnership.
Irish Blogs 2009
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Granular, chin-stroking critical discussion is the norm, thanks to poptimism, the mid-00s backlash against rockism – the prevailing prejudice that the only meaningful and serious music was created by men with guitars.
Bring it all back: why naff noughties pop is suddenly cool again Rachel Aroesti 2021
john commented on the word rockism
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."
September 21, 2007
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September 21, 2007