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Rock criticism
Rock criticism was born at that moment in the mid-1960s when rock and roll ceased to be “mere” dance music for teenagers and acquired a sense of itself as art. In the wake of Bob Dylan, bands such as the Beatles and the Byrds began to write lyrics susceptible to exegesis. Founded in 1966 by editor Paul Williams, Crawdaddy! was the first magazine devoted to the notion of rock as the crucial aesthetic medium through which the emergent counterculture articulated its dreams and aspirations. A year later a 21-year-old entrepreneur, Jann Wenner, started Rolling Stone in the hippie capital, San ...(100 of 951 words)