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Article evaluation: Rockism and Poptimism:


 * A rockist is someone that considers rock music as a normative state of popular music. For Poptimism is the pop music that is critique and related to rock music. The article is relevant to the article topic. It's summaries the concept of what the article is going to be about. Pop ad rock were creating a division that ave generic significance to both terms. Instruments were the main beat of these modern genres. Anything that is distracting me about the article is the difficulty of following with the article. Everything seem to be updated until a missing spot of New Pop. It has an edit tab to input your own knowledge about New Pop. I hoped this article had some information about New Pop. I would invest more information about New Pop section so that the world will know about it. In addition, what else could be improved is to add more visuals. Photos will make the article more understanding and interesting.
 * The article is neutral it breaks it down about Rock and Pop music.
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Rockism and Poptimism
Rockism is the belief in certain values thought to be intrinsic to rock music, making the genre superior to other forms of popular music. A "rockist" may also be someone who regards rock music as the normative state of popular music. Poptimism (or popism) is the belief that pop music is as worthy of professional critique and interest as rock music. Detractors of poptimism describe it as a counterpart of rockism that instead privileges the most famous or best-selling pop, hip-hop, and R&B acts.

Magazines devoted to the serious discussion of popular music first developed in the 1960s and 1970s, with some formative rock critics suggesting that enduring pop music art was made by singer-songwriters using traditional rock instruments on long-playing albums, and that pop hits reside on a lower aesthetic plane as a source of "guilty pleasure". The term "rockism" was coined in 1981 by English rock musician Pete Wylie and soon became a pejorative used humorously by self-described "anti-rockist" critics in the British press. Originally coinciding with the rise of New Pop in the early 1980s,the term was not generally used beyond small music magazines until the mid 2000s, partly due to the increasing number of bloggers who used it more seriously in analytical debate.

In the 2000s, a critical reassessment of pop music was underway, and by the next decade, poptimism supplanted rockism as the prevailing ideology in popular music criticism. While poptimism was envisioned as the "antidote" to rockist attitudes, opponents of its discourse argue that it has resulted in certain pop stars being shielded from negative reviews as part of an effort to maintain a consensus of uncritical excitement. Others argue that the two viewpoints have similar flaws.

Rock music has been consider to be a erupt, violent and harsh music that the fans loves to go wild on. Although these features are some what true, rock is consider as a culture, aesthetics, and social bond to human society. Rock music is this form of art that has a unique meaning about it, despite of the lyrics content. Rock music connects with the younger generation for these following reasons : The aesthetics sound material, fashion, and the music quality. The sound material contains electric guitars, drums, crazy dance moves and the performance. The wild rock concerts brings life into the audience ears. It is an astounding performance of how these concerts are set-up. The fashion is use to attractive the fans to have the merchandise from their favorite bands. Rock fashion are not bright colors but dark colors mostly. The colors as for example black is an essential color to use where it combines to whatever clothing ones wearing. It is a popular clothing to wear where it can establish the uniquely style of the rock culture. The music quality rock music tends to be loud with extremely high tone pitch and screams. It creates the music quality of the rock music that attracts the listeners to make it sound good. Rock music moves the new generations to explore this type of music even though parents might not approve it because it create a separations between each other. Therefore, the listeners that disagree with this type of music has a tendency to think it's the devil music, but like all other genres that lies in the same category in which it's called music. The word music not only defines as a form of expression, but it is the primary effect of the true value and meaning of a song. Rock only defines as the superior form of popular music like it says above. It stands out and creates a unique way of music.

New Pop
The new pop music is the popular music that is trending in our society today. Young adults are mainly attractive to this type of music and it's one of the most popular genres in the industry. The music technique of this genre enlightens the audience to dance and enjoy anywhere they go. This type of music creates major performances and engage the audience attention to develop the general social concepts. Like rock, pop is classify by age, class, ethnicity, and identity. The younger generation are hook to hip pop music because it's what is popular within their friends. The class establishes the style of the music someone prefers. Ethnicity is important in the pop music because it allows the community to explore other music ethnicities. Like for example, K-pop is a popular music genre that was introduce to the United States. By the music quality, fashion and performances it engage the audience to like their music and merchandise. Cappella music is produce by a human voice that create sounds and beats to create an instrumental song. All of these sources creates the new pop culture of music and it will never grow old because it's popular type of music in the industry.

Rockism[edit]
See also: New Pop

"Rockism" was coined in 1981 when 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. Former NME writer Paul Morley recalled:

Regarding the definition, music writer Ned Raggett commented: "Every article, every discussion, anything which involves the word seems to get bogged down or get taken apart in ways which prevent there from being any consensus." During the 1990s, to be a "rockist" was defined as demanding a perception of authenticity in pop music despite whatever artifice is needed. Design critic and indie pop musician Nick Currie (aka Momus) compared rockism to the international art movement Stuckism, which holds that artists who do not paint or sculpt are not true artists. Popmatters ' Robert Loss wrote that "traditionalism" describes the policing of the present with the past, making it a better word for "rockism".

In 2004, music critic Kelefa Sanneh offered a definition of rockists: "[S]omeone who reduces rock 'n' roll to a caricature, then uses that caricature as a weapon. Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher." He further accused rockists of projecting a sexist, racist, and homophobic point of view. Seattle Weekly 's Douglas Wolk acknowledged the loose definition of rockism and proposed: "Rockism, let's say, is treating rock as normative. In the rockist view, rock is the standard state of popular music: the kind to which everything else is compared, explicitly or implicitly."

In 2006, as a response to confusion over what the term meant, Morley said that the definition had "something to do with" the following five points:


 * "a) the difference between Springsteen and Beefheart, albums and singles, intelligence and stupidity, glitter and denim, and shaky notions of authenticity and artificiality"
 * "b) being able to listen to Nick Drake and Christina Aguilera with the same levels of intensity"
 * "c) how rock groups hold their guitars and what they do with their legs as they hold their guitars"
 * "d) Q magazine, which turned hardcore rockist values into a glossy magazine"
 * "e) the fact that Franz Ferdinand are achingly nostalgic for anti-rockism but are themselves intrinsically rockist."

Poptimism[edit]
There is a name for this new critical paradigm, 'popism'—or, more evocatively (and goofily), 'poptimism'—and it sets the old assumptions on their ear: Pop (and, especially, hip-hop) producers are as important as rock auteurs, Beyoncé is as worthy of serious consideration as Bruce Springsteen, and ascribing shame to pop pleasure is itself a shameful act.

Poptimism (also called popism) is a mode of discourse which holds that pop music deserves the same respect as rock music and is as authentic and as worthy of professional critique and interest. It positions itself as an antidote to rockism and developed following Carl Wilson's book about Céline Dion's album Let's Talk About Love and Sanneh's 2004 essay against rockism in The New York Times. In the article, Sanneh asks music listeners to "stop pretending that serious rock songs will last forever, as if anything could, and that shiny pop songs are inherently disposable, as if that were necessarily a bad thing. Van Morrison's 'Into the Music' was released the same year as the Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'; which do you hear more often?" Loss cited Sanneh's article as "a sort of ur-text on poptimism", elaborating:

After Sanneh published his 2004 article, an argument about rockism developed in various web circles. In 2006, music journalist Jody Rosen noted the growing backlash against rock's traditional critical acclaim and the new poptimism ideology. By 2015, Washington Post writer Chris Richards wrote that, after a decade of "righteously vanquishing [rockism's] nagging falsehood", poptimism had become "the prevailing ideology for today’s most influential music critics. Few would drop this word in conversation at a house party or a nightclub, but in music-journo circles, the idea of poptimism itself is holy writ."