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Pop Music Primer (2)AndPolitics:S tran geMix?By PHILIP WERDKLLModerator MagaalneNEW YORK (NEA) - A fewmonths ago a violent political debate came to a head when the prophet of doom met the proclaimer of the new world.The confrontation was not ona university debating platform,a television news special or even the Senate floor. The audi ence was all of teen-age America and the forum was every major pop music station in the nation.Day after day, time after time, the airways carried thebattle between “The Eve of De struction” and “The Dawn of Redemption.”For decades, the cocktail party rule, “Don’t talk about personal income, religion or politics,” had been rigidly supported by the mass media chatter makers. But suddenly controversy was legitimate, ant* pop music will never again be the same. The new themes o social and political criticism make the Kingston Trio, anr1 Peter, Paul and Mary seem ri diculously sugar-coated.Now the liberal chants that he’s liberal but he “shouldn’t let his daughter marry Barry Goldwater. The conservative sings back that “I spy for the FBI” (“Just because you have your shade down low, I know when you’re up—1 know when you’re down—I know when youThe Supremes exemplify theRoss and Florence Ballard.* *high schoolsMotown sound. They are, loft to right, Mary Wilson, Diana****) + + ** the “MT.V* and looked with self gro blues which pop music stcrA ft
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Fri, May 13, 1966
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