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Rock's Backpages is an online library of popular music journalism, sourced from freelance contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day. Music journalism is criticism and reportage about Music. It began in the eighteenth century as comment on what is now thought of as ' Classical music '

Rock's Backpages was founded in 2000 by British music journalist Barney Hoskyns. Barney Hoskyns (born 1959 is a British music critic and editor of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages. As of January 2008, its database contains over 12,000 articles (interviews, features, reviews etc. ), covering a wide range of popular music (including blues and soul music) from the 1950s onwards. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Soul music is a Music genre that combines Rhythm and blues and Gospel music, originating in the United States. [1]

Rock's Backpages is a subscription site, aimed at both individual consumers and institutional subscribers such as academic institutions and media organisations.

Sources for articles in the database include magazines such as Creem, Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Crawdaddy!, and Mojo magazine. Creem (whose trademark is capitalized CREEM) "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine" was a monthly Rock 'n' roll Publication started Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper Crawdaddy! was the first US magazine of Rock and roll music criticism Mojo is a popular Music Magazine published by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. The database contains contributions from over 300 journalists, primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom, including Dave Marsh, Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Tosches, Mick Farren, Al Aronowitz and Ian MacDonald. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950 Detroit Michigan) is an American Music critic who briefly attended Wayne State University Nick Kent (born 24 December 1951) is a British Rock critic and Musician. Charles Shaar Murray (born 1951 is an English Music Journalist. Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Biographer, and Poet. Michael 'Mick' Farren (born 3 September 1943, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) is an English journalist author and singer associated with the Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz ( May 20, 1928 &ndash August 1, 2005) was an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan Ian MacCormick ( October 3, 1948 – August 20, 2003) who wrote under the Pseudonym Ian MacDonald, was a British

The articles are full text and fully searchable.

All the material in the database is presented with the full agreement and permission of the copyright holders – freelance writers and journalists – or of their estates.

This entry was written and edited by Mark Pringle, who is a co-director of Rock's Backpages

References

  1. ^ "Group subscriptions". Rock's Backpages.

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