Culture/Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Music No Apologies: A Critique of the Rockist v. Poptimist Paradigm By Robert Loss / 10 August 2015 Both rockists and poptimists treat music as not much more than a social commodity, a consumerized product within the spectacle of American capitalism.
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