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Chuck Klosterman's Essay 'The Rock Lexicon'

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In the essay “The Rock Lexicon” author Chuck Klosterman gives a lesson about the various forms of Rock and Roll along with the modern terms used in popular culture to describe them. Klosterman begins with a discussion he was having with his sister, while driving in a rental car. This discussion began with his sister’s statement, “I don’t read your magazine anymore because all you guys ever write about is emo, and I don’t get it” (Silverman). Klosterman uses this conversation, in which his sister essentially means is that she is not reading his articles anymore, because she can’t understand or interpret what she is reading when they use musical jargon. This conversation made Klosterman realize that his sister is probably not the only person
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