Normative vs Rockism - What's the difference?
normative | rockism |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
(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 normative
is of or pertaining to a norm or standard.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.normative
English
(wikipedia normative)Adjective
(en adjective)- normative behaviour
- normative grammar
Hyponyms
* prescriptive * proscriptiveDerived terms
* normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativityrockism
English
(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