Rockism vs Rockist - What's the difference?
rockism | rockist |
(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)
(derogatory) One who subscribes to rockism.
* 1987 , New Society (volume 82)
* 1995 , Donald Clarke, The rise and fall of popular music: part 2
Rockist is a related term of rockism.
In derogatory terms the difference between rockism and rockist
is that 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 while rockist is one who subscribes to rockism.rockism
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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
rockist
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Noun
(en noun)- The basic thesis of the book is that generations of British rockists attended art school and that this explains the distinction and domination of Britpop.
- Rockists would maintain that their music has progressed since 1956, but there is so little musical difference between rock and pop that many of the artists would be impossible to place in one camp or the other.
