Rock Criticism from the Beginning av Ulf Lindberg, Gestur Gudmundsson, Morten Michelsen, Hans Weisethaunet

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<I>Rock Criticism from the Beginning</I> 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 <I>Crawdaddy!</I> and <I>Rolling Stone</I> to <I>The Source</I>, and from <I>Melody Maker</I> and <I>New Musical Express</I> to <I>The Wire</I>, 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.