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normative | rockism |

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
  • Conforming to a norm or norms.
  • normative behaviour
  • Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
  • normative grammar

    Hyponyms

    * prescriptive * proscriptive

    Derived terms

    * normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativity

    rockism

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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)
  • You literally can't fight rockism', because the language of righteous struggle is the language of ' rockism itself.
  • * 2008 , Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture (page 126)
  • Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music