# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rockwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:24:27.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rockwell"
name: "John Rockwell"
slug: "john-rockwell"
description: "John Sargent Rockwell is an American music critic, dance critic and arts administrator. According to Grove Music Online, \"Rockwell brings two signal attributes to his critical work: a genuine admiration for all kinds of music and the arts, and the ability to fit a spirit of inquiry and enthusiasm for newer approaches to music into a reasoned overview of cultural history\"."
tagline: "American critic and arts administrator (born 1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Rockwell_01A.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.213428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جون روكويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جون روكويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rockwell"
    title: "John Rockwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rockwell"
    title: "John Rockwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rockwell"
    title: "John Rockwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rockwell"
    title: "John Rockwell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Рокуэлл, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جان راک ویل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rockwell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2908f400-fa63-4b76-80a0-7bcdb5926b22"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump