New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture". It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock. Later,critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles,including synth-pop,alternative dance and post-punk. The main new wave movement coincided with late 1970s punk and continued into the early 1980s.
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village,New York City,known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf,Ed Fancher,John Wilcock,and Norman Mailer,The Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017,although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change,The Voice reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021.
Music journalism is media criticism and reporting about music topics,including popular music,classical music,and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century,providing commentary on what is now regarded as classical music. In the 1960s,music journalism began more prominently covering popular music like rock and pop after the breakthrough of The Beatles. With the rise of the internet in the 2000s,music criticism developed an increasingly large online presence with music bloggers,aspiring music critics,and established critics supplementing print media online. Music journalism today includes reviews of songs,albums and live concerts,profiles of recording artists,and reporting of artist news and music events.
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival,often referred to as MWMF or Michfest,was a lesbian feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County,Michigan,on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The Land" by Michfest organizers and attendees. The event was built,staffed,run,and attended exclusively by women,with girls,young boys and toddlers permitted.
Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics,he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop,riot grrrl,and the import of African popular music in the West. He was the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years,during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz &Jop critics poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire,Creem,Newsday,Playboy,Rolling Stone,Billboard,NPR,Blender,and MSN Music; he was a visiting arts teacher at New York University. CNN senior writer Jamie Allen has called Christgau "the E. F. Hutton of the music world–when he talks,people listen."
Pitchfork is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music,and expanded to cover genres including pop,hip hop,jazz and metal. Pitchfork is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age.
Ann K. Powers is an American writer and popular music critic. She is a music critic for NPR and a contributor at the Los Angeles Times,where she was previously chief pop critic. She has also written for other publications,such as The New York Times,Blender and The Village Voice. Powers is the author of Weird Like Us:My Bohemian America,a memoir;Good Booty:Love and Sex,Black &White,Body and Soul in American Music,on eroticism in American pop music;and Piece by Piece,co-authored with Tori Amos.
Rockism and poptimism are ideological arguments about popular music prevalent in mainstream music journalism. Rockism is the belief that rock music depends on values such as authenticity and artfulness,which elevate it over other forms of popular music. So-called "rockists" may promote the artifices stereotyped in rock music or may regard the genre as the normative state of popular music. Poptimism 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 unfairly privileges the most famous or best-selling pop,hip hop and R&B acts.
Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist,journalist,activist,feminist,and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays,The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Madonna studies refers to the study of the work and life of American singer-songwriter Madonna using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating cultural studies and media studies. In a general sense,it could refer to any academic studies devoted to her. After Madonna's debut in 1983,the discipline did not take long to start up and the field appeared in the mid-1980s,achieving its peak in the next decade. By this time,educator David Buckingham deemed her presence in academic circles as "a meteoric rise to academic canonisation". The rhetoric academic view of that time,majority in the sense of postmodernism,generally considered her as "the most significant artist of the late twentieth century" according to The Nation,thus she was understood variously and as a vehicle to open up issues. Into the 21st century,Madonna continued to receive academic attention. At the height of its developments,authors of these academic writings were sometimes called "Madonna scholars" or "Madonnologists",and both E. Ann Kaplan and John Fiske were classified as precursors.
Richard Goldstein is an American journalist and writer. He wrote for The Village Voice from June 1966 until 2004,eventually becoming executive editor. He specializes in gay and lesbian issues,music,and counterculture topics.
Kitty Empire is the pen name of a British writer and music critic,currently writing for The Observer.
Amanda Petrusich is an American music journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three books:Pink Moon (2007),It Still Moves:Lost Songs,Lost Highways,and the Search for the Next American Music (2008),and Do Not Sell at Any Price:The Wild,Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (2014).
The album era was a period in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century in which the physical album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption. Usually defined as lasting from the mid-1960s until the mid-2000s,it was driven primarily by three successive music recording formats:the 33⅓rpm long-playing record (LP),the cassette tape,and the compact disc (CD). Rock musicians from the US and UK were often at the forefront of the era,which is sometimes called the album-rock era in reference to their sphere of influence and activity. The term "album era" is also used to refer to the marketing and aesthetic period surrounding a recording artist's album release.
Jordannah Elizabeth is an American journalist,lecturer,music critic,author and screenwriter.
American singer-songwriter Madonna has had a social-cultural impact on the world through her recordings,attitude,clothing,and lifestyle since her early career in the 1980s. Madonna has built a legacy that goes beyond music and has been studied by sociologists,historians and other social scientists. This contributed to the rise of the Madonna studies,an academic and critical response dedicated to her work and persona for which Madonna's semiotic and image was diversified in a wide-ranging of theoretical stripe from feminism to queer studies among others.
Women in music perform a variety of roles and make a wide range of contributions. Women shape music movements,events,and genres as composers,songwriters,instrumental performers,singers,conductors,and music educators. Women's music has been created by and for women in part to explore ideas of women's rights and feminism. The impact of women in music influences concepts of creativity,activism,and culture.
Jessica Hopper is an American writer. She published The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, a compilation of her essays,reported pieces,zines,and reviews,in May 2015. In 2018,she published a memoir,Night Moves.
Madonnaland:And Other Detours in Fame and Fandom is a non-fiction book written by American essayist and musician Alina Simone. It is a biography of American singer Madonna,as well the author's own analysis of music and pop culture. Upon its release on March 3,2016 by University of Texas Press,Madonnaland received positive reviews from critics,who praised her writing and bold subject choice. Rolling Stone magazine listed it as one of the 10 Best Music Books released in 2016.
Evelyn McDonnell is an American writer and academic. Writing primarily about popular culture,music,and society,she "helped to forge a new kind of feminism for her generation." She is associate professor of journalism and new media at Loyola Marymount University.
