Doug repeats the standard pro-rock'n-roll line! Yes, Pete Seeger is a Harvard drop-out, and no, he and many otheres weren't happy when Dylan plugged in at Newport in 1965. But 30 years later, Seeger is still at it, going around playing the same songs on left fundraisers and events all year long. Dylan is still at it too, but neither he nor the other rockers of that generation have any overt connection with any politicla movement, outside the still-powerful content of some of his songs. And even Dylan himself proclaims disgust and the modern music scene and recording industry and urges a return to old folk music songs (as on his last 2 albums) as the most authentic stuff going. The upshot is, I think both folk music itself and its practitioners from Seeger through Si Kahn and beyond deserve considerable credit for their political contributions...for those who plugged in the story is a lot more ambiguous Thad Williamson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 8 22:47:57 1996 > Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 22:35:51 -0700 (PDT) > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Henwood) > To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:6035] Re: Rethinking Overdetemination > X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas > X-Comment: Progressive Economics > > At 7:41 AM 9/8/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > One thing which I > >think many economists ignore is the emotive rationale which music can attach > >to the hard cold facts of political/economic reasoning. > > I recently read a review of a book (in Rock & Rap Confidential, I think) on > folk music - you know, all that old CP-tinged stuff and its relatives, > sometimes done around campfires in the name of "authenticity." Its argument > was that the folk audience was actually quite elite (I think the word > Harvard even came up), and folkies were scandalized when the *real* popular > music, rock & roll, got started. > > Doug > > -- > > Doug Henwood > Left Business Observer > 250 W 85 St > New York NY 10024-3217 > USA > +1-212-874-4020 voice > +1-212-874-3137 fax > email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
