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Music critic Years active 1995-present | Nationality American | |
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Subject Music, feminism, journalism Notable works The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic Books The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic Profiles | ||
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Jessica Hopper is an American writer. An advocate for gender equality in the music industry, she is noted for her "influence and support for the diversification of voice and perspective within music journalism." The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, a compilation of her essays, reported pieces, zines, and reviews, was published in May 2015.
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Hopper grew up in Minneapolis. A feminist punk, she was encouraged by music critic Terri Sutton to find her own “staunch and caustic and uncompromising” voice. She began writing for the alternative weekly City Pages when she was 16. Since then, she has written for publications including the Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, and Spin. She was the DJ for This American Life and the first music editor of the radical teen-girl webzine Rookie. From 1991 to 2005, she published the fanzine Hit It Or Quit It.
Hopper was a senior editor of Pitchfork and the editor in chief of the print quarterly The Pitchfork Review from October 2014 until November 2015. She was appointed editorial director of music for MTV News in 2016.
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