Yahoo: ‘The Last Critic’ Review: A Captivating Portrait of Robert Christgau, the Brilliant Mad Professor of Rock Critics, and How He Made the Grade
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most 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 Villag…
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Born 18 April 1942 · Q314382
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Robert Christgau Is the ‘Last Critic’ Standing
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2018· 1 entry
That he rarely writes about jazz as it is "hard" to write about in an "impressionistic way", that he is "not at all well-schooled in the jazz albums of the '50s and '60s", and that he has neither the "language nor the fr
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2015· 1 entry
"You probably wouldn't be reading this publication if Robert Christgau didn't largely invent rock criticism as we know it
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2014· 3 entries
Christgau debuted a new version of "Expert Witness" on Cuepoint, an online music magazine published on the blogging platform Medium
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Billboard: Pop Art By Robert Christgau: In It For The Art
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Christgau debuted a monthly column on Billboard's website
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2013· 1 entry
Christgau announced in the comments section that "Expert Witness" would cease to be published by October 1, 2013, writing, "As I understand it, Microsoft is shutting down the entire MSN freelance arts operation at that t
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2010· 2 entries
Los Angeles Times: Robert Christgau says goodbye to the Consumer Guide: An exit interview
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Announced in the introduction to his "Consumer Guide" column that the July 2010 installment would be the last on MSN
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2007· 1 entry
Christgau was dismissed by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for another three months
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2006· 1 entry
The Voice fired Christgau after the paper's acquisition by New Times Media
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1990· 1 entry
Christgau changed the format of the "Consumer Guide" to focus more on the albums he liked
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1987· 1 entry
Was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of "folklore and popular culture" to study the history of popular music
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1986· 1 entry
"but I can't stand its delusions of grandeur, the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility"
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1981· 2 entries
“A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise”
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As Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies; it was followed by Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990) and Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000)
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1978· 1 entry
Lou Reed recorded a tirade against Christgau and his column on the 1978 live album, Take No Prisoners: "What does Robert Christgau do in bed
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1976· 2 entries
Said "the tone of the writing is now snotty—it lacks compassion, not to mention empathy, with current rock
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Dave Marsh bemoaned Christgau as a "classic, sad example" of how "many critics
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1975· 1 entry
Shortly after Hull queried Christgau as The Village Voice's regional editor for St
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1974· 1 entry
And they have an adopted daughter born in Honduras in 1986
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1971· 1 entry
Christgau inaugurated the annual Pazz & Jop music poll, named in tribute to Jazz & Pop
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1969· 1 entry
And he also worked as a college professor
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1964· 1 entry
To become a sportswriter and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-04-18.
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