Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A documentary about rock music or rock musicians.
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- noun A
documentary aboutrock music or its musicians.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The movie, released two years later, defined the "rockumentary" genre, and inadvertently gave birth to the ultimate rock parody This Is Spinal Tap.
Martin Scorsese: '3D is liberating. Every shot is rethinking cinema' Mark Kermode 2010
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In the MTV days, you would get the 'rockumentary' and the news and you started to care about (artists).
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One of the most affecting scenes in the "rockumentary" is of an adolescent sex worker somewhere in Asia.
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Police fans have been treated to a fair bit in the last couple of years; a reunion tour aside, there was drummer Stewart Copeland's cracking DVD release 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' in 2006, a fascinating 'rockumentary' detailing the band's disintegration from the inside in the early '80s.
Certifiable 2008
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Police fans have been treated to a fair bit in the last couple of years; a reunion tour aside, there was drummer Stewart Copeland's cracking DVD release 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out' in 2006, a fascinating 'rockumentary' detailing the band's disintegration from the inside in the early '80s.
Certifiable (DVD) 2008
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The brainchild of Justin Dillon, a San Francisco Bay-area musician, Call Response -- described as a "rockumentary" by its maker -- weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West and the activist/actress Ashley Judd, and live music performances from such disparate artists as Imogen Heap, Moby, Matisyahu, Natasha Bedingfield and the Sudanese rapper, Emmanuel Jal.
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So goes a famous scene from This Is Spinal Tap, the satirical 1984 "rockumentary" of "one of England's loudest bands," in which lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) tours his collection with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner).
Guitars Of The Stars Neal Santelmann 2006
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This Sunday at 7 PM, a free screening of the Wesley Willis "rockumentary"
Chicago Reader 2010
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Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean, a first of its kind 'rockumentary' on an Indian music band is all set to hit theatres.
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Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean, a first of its kind 'rockumentary' on an Indian music band is all set to hit theatres.
strev commented on the word rockumentary
From This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner.
see nonumental
June 14, 2009