A Legend In His Own Minefield

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The Nephew of American Rock Criticism

The Nephew of American Rock Criticism

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 27, 2015
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The Nephew of American Rock Criticism
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In the wake of the publication of his memoir, I Am the Antichrist(gau), many readers have been asking me if I knew Robert Christgau, the so-called dean of American rock critics. Well, of course I did. As one of the biggest of the biggies — I was never comfortable with being called The Father of American Rock Criticism, but was fine with being its Nephew…

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