Authentic vs Rockism - What's the difference?
authentic | rockism |
Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
(music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.
(obsolete) authoritative
(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.
* 2005 , J. T. LeRoy, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo best music writing 2005 (page 133)
* 2008 , Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture (page 126)
As an adjective authentic
is of the same origin as claimed; genuine.As a noun rockism is
a kind of music snobbery that views rock music as normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.authentic
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Alternative forms
* authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
- The report was completely authentic .
- an authentic''' writer; an '''authentic''' portrait; '''authentic information
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* (of the claimed origin) genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked * (conforming to fact) reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfakedAntonyms
* (not of the claimed origin) phony, fake; ingenuineDerived terms
* authentically * authenticate * authentication * authenticity * authenticism * authenticistrockism
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(wikipedia rockism)Noun
(-)- You literally can't fight rockism', because the language of righteous struggle is the language of ' rockism itself.
- Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music