Words are 'the thing' in today's new music
Veteran columnist John J. Meehan weighs rock's chord between dreamy expression and adult alarm. He notes Jefferson Airplane in Los Angeles recording Volunteers and traces how youth voice shapes culture from Dylan to the Lovin Spoonful.
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John J. Meehan
Paul Kantner
Jeferson Airplane
San Francisco
Paul
Grace Slick
Marty Balin
The
Airplane
RCA
Los Angeles
California
Budapest
Belgrade
Warsaw
Prague
Robert H. Bellah
University of California
Vatican
Kantner
John Sebastian
United States
Britain
Bob Dylan
Rock era muses on unity and escape in 1967 1968 works
The piece surveys 1967 68 rock and pop icons including the Beatles Lovin Spoonful Rolling Stones Jimi Hendrix Moody Blues and others. It links music to social upheaval generation gaps and calls for unity while noting artists attempts to bridge gaps between parents and kids and seek deeper meaning beyond party anthems.
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Mackenzie
San Francisco
U.S
Pepper
Baxter
Rolling Stones
Donovan
Baxter's
Golden Gate Park
Bill Wyman
Mick Jagger
The
Stones
Brian Jones
Rolling Stone
Brian
Martin Luther King
Robert F. Kennedy
Chicago
University Furmoi
Holling Stones
Jagger
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi
Young People's Books A Time For Watching And A Book Of Venus For You
Book notices review two children's works. A Time For Watching by Gunilla Norris follows Joachim in Sweden as idle time leads to character growth at home and post office work under his father. A Book Of Venus For You by Franklyn Branley explains Venus from ancient to modern science with diagrams and space probes.
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Moody Blues
Livingstone
Scott
Africa
Antarctic
Moodies
Timothy Leary
Leary
Graeme Edge
The
Earth
Joachim
Gubben Janson
Janson
Franklyn Branley
Leonard Reasler
Crowell
Venus
Center
Huntington Hartford
Gallery of Modern Art
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Karshaw
Schongauer
Durer
Holbein
Rembrandt
Goya
Homer
Whistler
Catlin
Albers
Johns
Rauschenberg
Etchings Price Rise Signals Shrinking Supply Says Collector
New York AP reports etchings and other graphic works climb in value as expert Donald H. Karshan notes a widening gap between demand and supply. He cites auctions where Picasso, Miro, and Matisse prints fetch far higher prices, and links rising prices to more exhibitions, scarce master works, and broadening public interest.
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New York
Donald H. Karshan
New York Cultural Center
Degas
Karshan
Olinda Brazil An Ancient City Beside Recife
A 30 minute bus ride from Recife leads to Olinda a hill town with 17th and 16th century buildings and a population around two hundred thousand. Founded in 1535 by Duarte Coelho Olinda faced French British and Dutch attacks before Dutch rule and is now a hub for artists and an ancient market for works. Dom Helder Camara the archbishop is noted for philanthropy and art school gestures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recife
Brazil
Olinda
Csn
Oli’a
Duarte Coelho
Atlantic
Olinda Posicao
Uma Vila
James Lancaster
Maurice of Nassau
Prince of Orange
Dom Helder Camara
Latin America
Dom Helder
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United Press International
Dylan
Vietnam
Charles University
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Jefferson Airplane
Spoonful
Jay
John Lennon
Scott Mackenzie
Graeme
Frank Zappa
Mothers of Invention
Young People’s Books
Gunilla Norris
Paul Giovanopoulos
Knopf
Fine
Detroit
Marshall Fredericks
John F. Kennedy
Fredericks
Mr. Clemens Plaza
Kennedy
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