rockism

Etymology

From rock +‎ -ism. See rock music.

Noun

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.

   • 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times‎:

     The rockism debate began in earnest in the early 1980's, but over the past few years it has heated up, and today, in certain impassioned circles, there is simply nothing worse than a rockist.

   • 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 […]