rockumentary

American  

[rok-yuh-men-tuh-ree] / ˌrɒk yəˈmɛn tə ri /

noun

1. a documentary about rock music.

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Etymology

Origin of rockumentary

1970–75; rock ² (in the sense “rock-'n'-roll”) + (doc)umentary

Example Sentences

Honestly, I don’t know what that scene is doing here; it’s the one moment — well, along with hugging Jesse Jackson backstage at an antiwar rally — that feels like conventional rockumentary.

From Salon

Rolling Stone magazine later called it the "greatest rockumentary ever".

From BBC

Ironize forms — such as the oral history or the rockumentary — that have ossified?

From Washington Post

It’s “like a rockumentary in written form,” wrote Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times.

From Seattle Times

More than a journeyman rockumentary, “Poly Styrene” is a thoughtfully finessed filial reckoning: a daughter’s journey toward understanding her mother as a young artist and as a young woman of color.

From New York Times