[peel] Re: Derby Dozen (half) & Jigs

[m.luetchford]

I and my pals were fully signed up members of the anti rockist movement.  To this day I studiously (some would say pretentiously) avoid anything that smacks of rockist behaviour. Guitar solos, air guitar,  boorish behaviour,  roadies, machismo,  hands in the air, over enthusiastic toe tapping ...


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Stuart Brooks stuartb@brooks22.plus.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date:07/04/2015  10:22  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: peel@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [peel] Re: Derby Dozen (half) & Jigs </div><div>
</div>That would make sense as i'd noted in the previous batch s several references to Rockism, John pulling himself up if he'd just said something that might be rockist. And he did correct himself for accidentally referring to a gig instead of a jig.
A quick trip to wikipedia informs us that no other than Pete Wylie is credited with coining the term in 1981 with his Race Against Rockism movement (funnily enough I was thinking about Rock Against Racism just beforehand).
While I can see John agreeing with the fundamental tenets of anti Rockism I can equally see him mildly taking the piss out of any over earnest campaign. 
Stuart


On 7 April 2015 09:54:14 BST, "dunelm@lineone.net [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 
Possibly because the word "gig" was considered to be rockist? Similarly his preferred word for "album" was "LP" and he would often refer to "bands" as "ensembles" etc.