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[freakytigger]

How come rock'n'roll didn't trigger the birth of rock criticism? (i.e. why wasn't Crawdaddy or an equiv started in 1957 or 1958?)

And indeed how come swing and jazz didn't start a fanzine culture?

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[koganbot]

Had an email convo with Simon Frith on this subject, which I'm pasting in here (with Simon's permission

lady godiva's (experimental) horse criticism

[dubdobdee]

in the US: start with mark twain
in the UK: start with john ruskin

(these two theories are a bit hard to reconcile, since it requires rock writing to have i. been invented in the uk (but cf lady godiva's horse) and ii. by critical history's most famous virgin

BUT ruskin did actual know a lot about rock

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[anonymous]

То carry coals to Newcastle.