{"id":3122,"date":"2015-03-08T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:02:21","slug":"dueling-with-the-dean-rock-crit-robert-christgau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/03\/dueling-with-the-dean-rock-crit-robert-christgau.html","title":{"rendered":"Dueling With the Dean: Rock Crit Robert Christgau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ON the occasion of his new memoir, Going Into the City, which chronicles the roots of a rock critic and in some ways an entire generation of American pop-culture journalists, I spoke to Christgau about childhood, politics, fellow scribe Ellen Willis, pop, and the lost promise of the ’60s.<\/p>\n

He’s the author of immortal line, in his review of a Prince record: “Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home.”<\/p>\n

Christgau, who I have been reading since I was as teenager, hails from roughly the same lower-middle-class Queens milieu my father does. I found him both one of the easiest and one of the most difficult people I have ever spoken to.<\/p>\n

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Here<\/a>\"1503_SBR_GoingIntoCityCOVER.jpg.CROP.original-original\"<\/a> is my piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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