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Rockism

Rockism

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Rockism and poptimism.

Rockism

"Rockism" was coined in 1981 when the English rock musician Pete Wylie announced his Race Against Rockism campaign, an inversion of Rock Against Racism. The term was immediately repurposed as a polemical label to identify and critique a cluster of beliefs and assumptions in music criticism. Morley recalled: