rockism or poptism?

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That's not a counter thesis, Scaruffi loves high-art and culture so much he unconsciously has a rockist lens whenever he appreciates electronic music (in the same way, he has a jazz bias when he judges rock; a classical bias when he judges jazz).

Genres like progressive electronic/ambient, IDM, critically-acclaimed techno/breaks in general.. these are merely electronic pursued with rock (via jazz via classical) values.

The terms rockism and poptimism are essentially a contemporary interpretation of what academics call art-music and traditional-music, respectively.

This is their history:
>poptimism is primeval, since traditional-music is one of the earliest forms of communication; "all music is equal" because the listeners themselves are relatively equal in primitive societies
>art-music appears in aristocratic/hierarchical societies; "unequal" since some listeners can afford to listen to more music with better instruments, composers and performers
>basically, folk v.s. classical
>blues v.s. jazz
>rhythm and blues v.s. rock
>EDM v.s. indie/alternative/IDM
>Hampus/Biotrll v.s. CLT
>Turny v.s. that IDM girl
>/daily/ v.s. /classical/

The former are basically for those who find themselves at the bottom of the cultural hierarchy, they are simultaneously listening to what is a sterilised version of the last groundbreaking genre (as say RnB was to jazz, or EDM/disco to [kraut]rock) while missing out on whatever the current new thing is.