로버트 크리스트가우

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로버트 토마스 크리스트가우(영어: Robert Thomas Christgau, 1942년 4월 18일~)는 미국의 수필가이자, 음악 저널리스트이자 자타공인 "미국 록 비평가"이다. 초기 전문 록 비평가들 중 한 명으로, 그는 37년 간 주요 음악 비평매체에 비평을 썼으며, 그가 연간 잡지 "Pazz & Jop"을 창간하던 당시 The Village Voice에서 편집장으로 지냈다.

Robert Thomas Christgau 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. CNN senior writer Jamie Allen has called Christgau "the E. F. Hutton of the music world—when he talks, people listen."