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Robert Christgau

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Robert Thomas Christgau ( KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African popular music in the West. He was the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music; he was a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Christgau is the 5,443rd most popular writer (up from 5,718th in 2019), the 8,559th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,785th in 2019) and the 634th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Christgau ranks 5,443 out of 7,302. Before him are Álvares de Azevedo, Lucius Shepard, Zośka Vieras, Chaim Potok, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, and William Cobbett. After him are Rafael Cadenas, Jeanne Dumée, Francis Carco, Cynthia McLeod, Alison Lurie, and Nikolai Pogodin.

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Among people born in 1942, Robert Christgau ranks 536. Before him are Michael Nesmith, Teddy Pilette, Imran N. Hosein, Rudolf Belin, Han Pil-hwa, and Gideon Toury. After him are Raymond Depardon, Javier Fragoso, Frankie Lymon, Michael Giles, Sila María Calderón, and Antonio Martino.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Christgau ranks 8,561 out of 20,380. Before him are William Mapother (1965), Chaim Potok (1929), Alfred Francis Russell (1817), Robert Rubin (1938), Warren Jeffs (1955), and Jackson Scholz (1897). After him are Virgil Thomson (1896), Oliver Nelson (1932), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Katherine Dunham (1909), Saoirse Ronan (1994), and Priscilla Cooper Tyler (1816).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Christgau ranks 634. Before him are John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Eve Ensler (1953), John Holt (1923), Robert Coover (1932), Fran Lebowitz (1950), and Chaim Potok (1929). After him are Alison Lurie (1926), Walter J. Ong (1912), Robert Bly (1926), Holly Black (1971), Max Eastman (1883), and Dorothy Allison (1949).

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