rockist

English

Etymology

rock +‎ -ist

Noun

rockist (plural rockists)

1. (derogatory) One who subscribes to rockism.
   • 1987, New Society, volume 82:

     The basic thesis of the book is that generations of British rockists attended art school and that this explains the distinction and domination of Britpop.

   • 1995, Donald Clarke, The rise and fall of popular music: part 2:

     Rockists would maintain that their music has progressed since 1956, but there is so little musical difference between rock and pop that many of the artists would be impossible to place in one camp or the other.

   • 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2006 May 25, Paul Morley, “Rockism—it's the new rockism”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     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.

Adjective

rockist (comparative more rockist, superlative most rockist)

1. Related to rockism.
   • 2022 December 1, Chal Ravens, “We like to party: how pop became the sound of the underground”, in DJ Mag‎^[3]:

     Reframe that argument for dance music specifically, and things get weird. Techno and house end up in the “rockist” category — despite their origins in queer culture and radical Blackness — because of their relative emphasis on tradition, craft and underground legitimacy.