Rockism is a canon-obsessed ideology, and although its critical heyday has mostly passed, any anthology like this one will invite scrutiny for traces of its residue.
(The piece isn't included in "Shake It Up," but Sanneh's 2010 New Yorker review of Jay Z's memoir, "Decoded," is). Rockism is a canon-obsessed ideology, and although its critical heyday has mostly passed, any anthology like this one will invite scrutiny for traces of its residue.
The book was published only a little past the heyday of critical theory, and Kraus was aware of how conceptualising and naming experience could validate it; she was also aware of the absurdity of this practice.
However fashionably bucolic and gothic the Rectory Wood was in its heyday, one critical commentator of the time described it as having "the taste of the savage about it".
Ridiculed by TV comics as Dire Stuff even in their multimillion-shifting heyday, repeated critical attempts to rehabilitate the understated beauty of songs such as Romeo and Juliet haven't dented their unassailable lack of cool.
All Orozco's works are deeply informed by historical precedent — a feature that thrills scholars of contemporary art, who have been bereft of viable heroes since the heyday of critical theory, in the nineteen-eighties, spawned waves of eagerly abstruse artists who would prove as disheartening to their mentors as to most everybody else.
That changed while he was a student at the University of Tennessee, by way of intellectual excitement: the early nineteen-nineties were a heyday of academic critical theory, when thinking skeptically about art could seem as good as, if not better than, making it.
Austrian-born Preminger's critical reputation has diminished since his heyday in the two decades between the end of World War II and the emergence of the psychedelic generation.
For one thing, it was a critical and financial success despite being formed in 1968, long after the heyday of big bands had ended.
Peter Lorimer, a Leeds striker in their heyday, former publican, and now a director, is regarded by many as Bates' mouthpiece and had been critical enough before kick-off.
In its heyday, from the 1960s to the 1980s, the UK music press was the forging ground for a new critical culture, where readers could encounter anything from comics and cult films to new musical forms and radical underground politics.
