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Author Brown, Andy R.
Title Heavy metal justice? Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of Rolling Stone 1980‐91: Part one 1980‐85 Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 61-84
Keywords Rolling Stone (magazine)
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Call Number UCM-CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ Serial 2060
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Author Brown, Andy R.
Title Heavy metal justice?: Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of Rolling Stone, 1980‐91: Part two 1986‐91 Type Journal Article
Year 2021 Publication Metal Music Studies Abbreviated Journal
Volume 7 Issue 2 Pages 257-276
Keywords History (metal music); Perception of metal music; Rolling Stone (magazine)
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Call Number UCM-CAM @ amaranta.saguar.garcia @ Serial 2128
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Author Sikes, Laura
Title In the Groove: American Rock Criticism, 1966-1978 Type Book Whole
Year 2017 Publication Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 390
Keywords American literature; Communication and the arts; Counterculture; Group identity; Journalism; Literature and linguistics; Music criticism; Music history; Nineteen sixties; Political discourse; Rock journalism; Rock music; Rolling Stone (magazine); United States history
Abstract Rock and roll music was a national youth obsession for more than ten years before the first rock critics began writing seriously about the form. Rock was dismissed by adult cultural authorities as empty, degraded, and even dangerous. However, to its fans, rock was an important form of personal expression, a source of group identity, and a mode of political discourse. Rock critics understood its cultural and political power. In their work, they explained its importance to the American public.

In 1966, the first rock critic, Richard Goldstein, began writing about rock and roll in a weekly column in the Village Voice called “Pop Eye.” In it, he asserted that rock and roll was an art that deserved the same recognition and protections afforded to other art forms. By 1967, The New Yorker hired Ellen Willis to write about rock in a regular column called “Rock, Etc.” She brought an intellectual sophistication to the genre that would resound long after her career as a rock critic ended. Later in 1967, Rolling Stone debuted; it would become the most visible and influential source of rock criticism for the next fifty years. Editor Jann Wenner’s tastes and approach would affect the way rock was perceived in his own time and for decades after. Finally, in 1968, Lester Bangs debuted onto the scene, writing artful reviews for publications like Creem and Rolling Stone, explaining the changes that were taking place as rock music splintered into subgenres like punk and heavy metal.

The quality of these rock critics’ thought and the influence of their writing makes rock criticism an important and under-studied branch of Sixties literature. Each of the rock critics addressed in this dissertation explained to the public what rock music meant and why it mattered. By placing rock in its social, political, and cultural context, they demonstrated that it was far from the empty form cultural authorities thought it was. Their work permanently changed perceptions of popular music, proving that it was substantial enough to stand up to the same kind of critical treatment as other art forms.
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Call Number INTech @ brianhickam2019 @ Serial 2208
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