rockism

From rock +‎ -ism. See rock music.

rockism (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as superior or normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms.

   Antonyms: popism, poptimism

   • 1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice‎:

     Near as a body could tell from here, rockism wasn’t just liking Yes and the Allman Brothers — it was liking London Calling.

   • 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.

   • 2006 May 25, Paul Morley, “Rockism - it's the new rockism”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 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 […]

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