Sure, but "people who grew up in a rhetorical atmosphere in which they are shielded from ever hearing a bad word about the artists they like" is also an accurate way of describing fans of popular canonical rock music, less so today but still to an extent.
I think if you consider what is canonical and critically enshrined over time rather …
Sure, but "people who grew up in a rhetorical atmosphere in which they are shielded from ever hearing a bad word about the artists they like" is also an accurate way of describing fans of popular canonical rock music, less so today but still to an extent.
I think if you consider what is canonical and critically enshrined over time rather than what's praised day to day in post-internet media then rock music generally still is the foundation and the middle.
Another aspect of the original articles about rockism was that you could have rockists attitudes in other genres - I think today's pop music actually resembles the structures the poptimists once decried, albeit in a post-woke way.
Basically I don't really trust media and music criticism to tell stories that reflect the truth of what is happening in music or what has happened, but that was just as true pre-poptimism as it is today, we've just added a different rhetoric for shutting down discussion and forcing people to conform.
Less popular genres are still seen as smaller and more peripheral, the corners of a finite system rather than universes in their own right. You could spend your entire life exploring disco or flamenco or western swing or whatever, but the systems we have for talking about music are always about lionising megastars. And they always have been.
Sure, but "people who grew up in a rhetorical atmosphere in which they are shielded from ever hearing a bad word about the artists they like" is also an accurate way of describing fans of popular canonical rock music, less so today but still to an extent.
I think if you consider what is canonical and critically enshrined over time rather than what's praised day to day in post-internet media then rock music generally still is the foundation and the middle.
Another aspect of the original articles about rockism was that you could have rockists attitudes in other genres - I think today's pop music actually resembles the structures the poptimists once decried, albeit in a post-woke way.
Basically I don't really trust media and music criticism to tell stories that reflect the truth of what is happening in music or what has happened, but that was just as true pre-poptimism as it is today, we've just added a different rhetoric for shutting down discussion and forcing people to conform.
Less popular genres are still seen as smaller and more peripheral, the corners of a finite system rather than universes in their own right. You could spend your entire life exploring disco or flamenco or western swing or whatever, but the systems we have for talking about music are always about lionising megastars. And they always have been.