Rock Criticism from the Beginning: Amusers, Bruisers, and Cool-Headed Cruisers

Popular music plays a prominent role in the cultural transformations that are constantly reshaping our world. Music is at the center of contemporary debates about globalization, electronic commerce, space and locality, style and identity, subculture and community. Music [Meanings] offers book-length studies examining the impact of popular music on individuals, cultures and societies. The series addresses popular music as a form of communication and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present. It chronicles the evolution of a new form of journalism, and the course by which writing on rock was transformed into a respected field of cultural production. The authors explore the establishment of magazines from Crawdaddy! and Rolling Stone to The Source, and from Melody Maker and New Musical Express to The Wire, while investigating the careers of well-known music critics like Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus, and Lester Bangs in the U.S., and Nik Cohn, Paul Morley, and Jon Savage in the U.K., to name just a few. While much has been written on the history of rock, this Bourdieu-inspired book is the first to offer a look at the coming of age of rock journalism, and the critics that opened up a whole new kind of discourse on popular music.

• | Author: Gestur Gudmundsson, Ulf Lindberg, Morten Michelsen, Hans Weisethaunet
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• | Publication Date: Sep 29, 2005
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780820474908
• | ISBN-10: 0820474908