TY - BOOK AU - Ulf Lindberg AU - Gestur Guðmundsson AU - Morten Michelsen AU - Hans Weisethaunet PY - 2005 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1531-6726 TI - Rock Criticism from the Beginning T2 - Amusers, Bruisers, and Cool-Headed Cruisers UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100361 N2 - 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. KW - Rockmusik, Geschichte 1960-2004, Great Britain, rock music, criticism, popular music, cultural field, Musikkritik LA - English ER -