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	Rockism
		Rockism is an ideology of popular music criticism, originating in the British music press in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
		Rockism is a primitivist ideology; a subtext of rockism is that, at one time in history, they "got music right", and that since then has been a decline.
	www.jahsonic.com /Rockism.html (456 words)

	You might be a rockist if... \| The Mac Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rockism doesn’t mean much to anyone outside of the small circles of music critics, the pseudo-critics, like yours truly, and those who populate the weblogs and chatrooms of the Internet.
		The definition of rockism is as enigmatic as its origins and as amorphous as its author wishes it to be.
		Rockism is at once anti-corporate and exclusive to the point that for any music to be worth a listen it cannot be tainted by any executives or by production equipment.
	www.themacweekly.com /articles/20061211/the_arts/10972 (539 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> rockism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rockism is an ideology of popular music criticism, originating in the British music press in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
		Rockism is a primitivist ideology; a subtext of rockism is that, at one time in history, they "got music right", and that all subsequent innovations have compromised this purity.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/rockism (543 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rockism
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
		Rockism is a primitivist ideology; a subtext of rockism is that, at one time in history, they "got music right", and that all subsequent innovations have compromised this purity.
		Rockism is therefore not a connotatively neutral term; as music writer Ned Raggett writes, "You’re not going to find anyone arguing FOR [rockism] any time soon, or at least coming out and saying so—but that’s precisely because of the terms of the discourse.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Rockism (563 words)

	Does hating rock make you a music critic? - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
		Rockism was a product of its own historical moment, a time when rock critics had to face down snobs on both their right and left flanks who dismissed the idea that pop music could ever be art at all.
		It's a pity that critics succeeded in beating back the cultural elitists by creating their own high-low hierarchies within pop, but to the extent that Madonna and Jay-Z are today spoken of as "artists" without anyone batting an eye, we all owe rockists a big-up.
		It's a bit of good fun to read that "rockism" is the hot fire currently sweeping that otherwise dry prairie known as rock criticism, and that arguments about what constitutes "authentic" music versus that which is corporately constructed rages on among the younger writers.
	www.slate.com /id/2141418 (2634 words)

	secondhandnews: i wrote a dissertation about ilm and rockism
		In the case of Rockism; the paradigm that a ‘rockist’ would seek to perpetuate could be seen to be related to cultural competence, for example to fully appreciate a ‘rockist’ text one would need to understand and appreciate authenticity as a positive non-musical aspect of the song.
		Rockism is a manifestation of the hegemonically powerful and whilst this might have been a change in hegemony from recent history it remains the voice of the dominant; as rock has been consecrated it has essentially become the conservative norm.
		Rockism is perhaps aggravating to ILM as a ‘rockist’ would not believe themselves to be the conservative norm, much of the what rock sees is important is based on confrontation.
	secondhandnews.blogspot.com /2005/09/i-wrote-dissertation-about-ilm-and.html (6139 words)

	ROCKISM Articles Rockism is an ideology of popular m
		Rockism, derived from the British music press in the early 1980s, can be defined in more than one way, and it would be difficult to recognize one absolute meaning.
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as an auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
		This is as opposed to the notion of manufactured "pop" music, created in assembly line fashion by teams of hired record producers and technicians and performed by pop stars who have little input into the creative process, designed to appeal to a mass market and make profits rather than express authentic sentiments.
	www.amazines.com /Rockism_related.html (554 words)

	Rockism
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
		Rockism is a primitivist ideology; a subtext of rockism is that, at one time in history, they "got music right", and that since then has been a decline.
		Critics of rockism assert that this vaunted "golden age" of pure, authentic music is a myth, and that popular music never was entirely free of the interference of commercialism, marketing and commodification.
	jahsonic.com /Rockism.html (456 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Music > The Rap Against Rockism
		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.
		The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.
		Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/10/31/arts/music/31sann.html?ei=5090&en=5d74c31cbf3d2d34&ex=1256965200&partner=WEBLOGS&pagewanted=print (2055 words)

	lacunae: empirical f.f.r.r.
		Following up a little: Daphne Brooks did a really good presentation on rockism, and not exactly this kind.
		The formulation that makes the most sense to me is that rockism is treating rock as normative.
		rockism is, at the moment, also kind of built into the discourse about popular music, because almost all of the interesting early writing about pop was about and published during that late-'60s/early-'70s rock moment, which means that the whole house was subsequently built on that foundation.
	www.lacunae.com /archives/000356.html (312 words)

	Who Can Really Say?: Rockism and Reality
		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.
		The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.
		Rockism makes it hard to hear the glorious, incoherent, corporate-financed, audience-tested mess that passes for popular music these days.
	whocanreallysay.com /archives/000584.html (537 words)

	Rockism - it's the new rockism \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		If the idea of rockism confused you, and you lazily thought Pink Floyd were automatically better than Gang of Four, and that good music had stopped with punk, you were a rockist and you were wrong.
		It's taken 25-odd years for the rockism debate to make its way into a slightly bigger and more influential theatre, the spreading net, where there are thousands and thousands of zealously discriminating, pontificating bloggers doing the endless, precious work one or two of us did back then.
		And for all their studious over-analysis, any definition of rockism is the same today as it's always been.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,,1783160,00.html (383 words)

	Oxford American.com
		The parsing of music into verbal and nonverbal categories is also one of the hallmarks of “rockism,” the logocentric attitude that subscribes to a host of false dichotomies such as hip vs. square, hard vs. soft, raw vs. slick, authentic vs. fake, and rock vs. pop.
		Rockism is what prompts people to ask, “Beatles or Stones?” as if they couldn’t imagine that the answer could be, “Both, and James Brown, Martha Reeves, and Dusty Springfield too!” Rockism induces people to size up, canonize, and suppress music instead of abandoning themselves to its pleasures and powers.
		Rockism betrays a divide-and-conquer mentality rooted in phallocentrism, the hierarchal identification of the masculine with logic, and thus as the animating and grounding force in the universe.
	www.oxfordamericanmag.com /content.cfm?ArticleID=84&Entry=Home (2088 words)

	Have Greil Marcus (et al) weighed in on the rockism issue? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apologies if this is common knowledge, but seeing the recent attacks on Greil Marcus' rockist tendencies (over at Utopian Turtletop for instance) makes me wonder if he, or any other members of the 60s rock-crit generation, have taken any notice of this debate or responded to any of the criticism by younger critics.
		I believe rockism will be the topic for his lecture next Friday, actually.
		Rockism is merely an empty conceptual tool for the intellectual defense of the love of craptunes.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=7069467 (8851 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Music - For those about to pop
		Rockism is a legacy of 1970s music journalism, when, pop writers fought a different battle, to make the case that popular music - derided by "serious" critics - should be taken as seriously as any other art form.
		The false and meaningless distinction between pop and rock is a legacy of rockism.
		Meanwhile, what has emerged in recent years is closet rockism, which proclaims, "I'm not rockist, but...", in the same way that you often hear homophobes say, "I'm not homophobic, but..." If you want to throw open that closet, to know for sure if someone is a rockist or a poptimist, forget Kylie or Beyoncé.
	living.scotsman.com /music.cfm?id=782632006 (2304 words)

	Rocknerd \| The Rap Against Rockism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Like rock 'n' roll itself, rockism is full of contradictions: it could mean loving the Strokes (a scruffy guitar band!) or hating them (image-conscious poseurs!) or ignoring them entirely (since everyone knows that music isn't as good as it used to be).
		Much of the most energetic resistance to rockism can be found online, in blogs and on critic-infested sites like ilovemusic.com, where debates about rockism have become so common that the term itself is something of a running joke.
		In the end, the problem with rockism isn't that it's wrong: all critics are wrong sometimes, and some critics (now doesn't seem like the right time to name names) are wrong almost all the time.
	rocknerd.org /article.pl?sid=04/11/02/0010252 (2216 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Radio & Music > Notes on Rockism
		And yes, tendencies, because Rockism is not an ideology, but a perversion, and all of those poor kids in their garages listening to The Strokes should be in therapy.
		Rockism vs Poptimism was less about the musicians and more about a battle for audiences.
		Rockism as portrayed by its enemies is explicitly anti-modernist.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/27009 (4077 words)

	rockism - Bowlie
		Like rock 'n' roll itself, rockism is full of contradictions: it could mean loving the Strokes (a scruffy guitar band!) or hating them (image-conscious poseurs!) or ignoring them entirely (since everyone knows that music isn't as good as it used to be).
		Much of the most energetic resistance to rockism can be found online, in blogs and on critic-infested sites like ilovemusic.com, where debates about rockism have become so common that the term itself is something of a running joke.
		In the end, the problem with rockism isn't that it's wrong: all critics are wrong sometimes, and some critics (now doesn't seem like the right time to name names) are wrong almost all the time.
	www.bowlie.com /forum/music-room/5963-rockism.html (2082 words)

	Comments for Rockism Reorientation - Pop Playground - Stylus Magazine
		Arguing that rockism is only relevant to music, also removes certain similarities to how the debates occured.
		For example, just as the increase of availability of mp3s helped the rockism debate, the backlog of american films made during WW2 being suddenly made available after in France after WW2 made it easier for connections to be made in between films/directors.
		In my opinion, the key point is that anti-rockism is not necessarilly about abandoning values to judge music by, but rather to choose from a different set of values for different types of music.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /featurecomment.php?ID=1679 (1260 words)

	ROCKISM Articles Rockism is an ideology of popular m
		Rockism, derived from the British music press in the early 1980s, can be defined in more than one way, and it would be difficult to recognize one absolute meaning.
		Rockism is suspicious of the use of technology, from synthesizers to Pro Tools-style computer-based production systems.
		Rockism places value on the idea of the composer and performer as an auteur; authentic music is composed as a sincere form of self-expression, and usually performed by those who composed it.
	amazines.com /Rockism_related.html (533 words)

	Click opera - Shrinkwrap
		Electronica has been able to escape rockism for a couple of years, but is now definitely subject to the term and god bless Hypo for destroying that genre a little bit.
		Sometimes I wonder if we've even entered the postmodern age yet, when critics (and quite a few artists) fail to be able to embrace all the realities as well as irrealities across the spectrum of musical and artistic genres.
		Rockism, folkism, jazzism, classicism--it's all about stopping your ears instead of opening them up, failing to enjoy the contradictions and only seeing binaries in a heterogeneous world.
	imomus.livejournal.com /58927.html?thread=1079599 (567 words)

	Gallery of Rockism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet oddly enough, while rockism continues to define metal and fuels many of the new male country singers, two of its bulwarks these days are rap (pardon me, hip hop) and the former Amerindie subculture still sometimes labeled alternative, both of which reject or redefine virtuosity while championing their own modes of rugged mastery.
		As so often happens in countercultures, it's like hippie all over again: in order to combat the ruling class, the media, the powers that be, the establishment, the man, both rappers and alternative rockers lay claim to an individualistic ethos they believe has been homogenized out of existence.
		Rockism and Whiteboyism were the determination of a people who had nothing that could be called theirs but a daily meal of the lowest description of food, not to submit to being deprived of that for other people's convenience."
	rockcritics.com /features/galleryofrockism.html (4288 words)

	The Big Takeover: Art Would Go On Better if the Search for Celine Dion Sank :
		Making the situation more complicated is that it stems largely from the ongoing (largely manufactured) ‘rockism’ vs. ‘popism’ argument, with rockism being accused of valuing only the myths of individual creativity and and ‘authenticity’ and popism (sometimes referred to as ‘anti-rockism’ or ‘poptimism’) allegedly believing that ‘guilty pleasures’ and ‘classics’ should be impossible to separate.
		The rub is that Wilson often refers to himself as a poptimist, so theoretically, he shouldn’t feel antipathy to anything except for rockism and its engrained, perhaps morally suspect, ways of thinking.
		Either way, the goal seems to be to control the discussion of music, and, therefore, in the mind of the combatants, to control the thinking of society (reality not required).
	www.bigtakeover.com /essays/art-would-go-on-better-if-the-search-for-celine-dion-sank (1932 words)

	Smallmouth: Thinking About Rockism (Seattle Weekly)
		For him, rockism is the aesthetic that defines itself by building barriers against what rock isn't.
		So, for instance, it's a rockist opinion that pre-stereo-era blues and country are interesting less in their own right than because they anticipated rock, or that Run-D.M.C. and Alison Krauss are notable because their virtues are also the virtues of rock, or that Ciara's Goodies isn't interesting because it fails to act like rock.
		Now, the interesting thing about that formulation of "rockism" is that it's not intrinsically rockist to love rock, or to write about it; you can also mostly care about RandB or norteño or bubblegum pop but discuss them in a rockist way.
	www.seattleweekly.com /2005-05-04/music/thinking-about-rockism.php (1672 words)

	Critics who blow
		That it was published in the Times is important to remember as we wade through this piece of writing -- it is not a clip from a fanzine, a rant from someone's blog, or a column from a weekly paper in some place like Branson, Missouri.
		Sanneh sets up his false dichotomy; it is the "authentic old legend (or underground hero)" versus the "latest pop star"; "punk" against "disco"; the "live show" against the "music video"; the "growling performer" against the "lip-syncher"; with the rockist of course loving the former and loathing the latter in each case.
		To glorify only performers who write their own songs and play their own guitars is to ignore the marketplace that helps create the music we hear in the first place...
	www.ratbloodsoup.com /Sanneh.html (1877 words)

	Rockism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Design critic and indie pop musician Nick Currie compared Rockism to the art movement of Stuckism,
		Responses to the anti-rockist critique claim that these allegations are based on false assumptions and differing expectations.
		"The Rap Against Rockism", New York Times, 31 October 2004
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rockism (547 words)

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