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May 22, 2019 · In his role as a page editor at the Voice, Christgau mentored music critics the way Art Blakey did jazz legends: Chuck Eddy, Gary Giddins, Joe Levy, Ann Powers, R. J. Smith, Greg Tate,...
- David Cantwell
Jun 25, 2020 · For most of the last 50 years, Robert Christgau has called himself “The Dean of American Rock Critics,” and though he has always said it jokingly, I have no doubt that he means it.
Mar 1, 2015 · One of rock music's most loved, feared and prolific scribes, the 72-year-old Christgau says he knew early on that he liked criticism better than journalism: "I didn't want to get into...
Oct 23, 2016 · If you started writing record reviews today, and penned one a day for the next 40 years, you still wouldn’t have written as many as Robert Christgau, the legendary scribe who has some 15,000...
- Jenny Eliscu
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] 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 ...
May 9, 2001 · The self-styled dean of American rock criticism talks about rock's past, its future and why he hit Ellen Willis in the face with a piece of pie. For 35 years, Robert Christgau has written about...
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Nov 6, 2018 · In early rock criticism this meant mainly blues and country, but for me it came to encompass all pop music including jazz and African and, well, blackface minstrelsy and the waltz and Provencal...
