yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (Larry J. Huntley) (09/24/85)
In article <311@uwvax.UUCP> pfeiffer@uwvax.UUCP (Phil Pfeiffer) writes: > >P.P.S: I don't understand why we're hearing so much about rock'n'roll's >glorification of (premarital, I presume) sex but little regarding the >glorification of adultery in C&W. Ain't it the truth. I think you overstate the case by the use of "little"; I have NEVER heard ANY (negative) discussion about the glorification of drinking, hell-raising, lusting, cheating, and all-round good clean fun that is the norm in C & W. Of course, I don't remember anyone trying to ban Beethoven's "Eroica", either. As Ellen Burstyn says to Alan Alda in "Same Time Next Year": "It's a sign of age, you know; concern about the declining morality of youth." 'brd -- Larry J. Huntley Burroughs Corporation Distributed Systems Group MS-703 10850 Via Frontera San Diego, CA 92128 (619) 485-4544 When in Reality, do as the Realists do.
mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Marcel F. Simon) (09/26/85)
> >P.P.S: I don't understand why we're hearing so much about rock'n'roll's > >glorification of (premarital, I presume) sex but little regarding the > >glorification of adultery in C&W. > > Ain't it the truth... > .... As Ellen Burstyn says to Alan Alda in > "Same Time Next Year": "It's a sign of age, you know; concern about the > declining morality of youth." > > Larry J. Huntley I could not agree more. I have always wondered if the people who decry the glorification of drug use in rock while nostalgically reaching out for Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong realize that when Cab sang "You've got to bang a Gong / to run with me", he was talking about cocaine; or that Louis' famous "St James Infirmary" is about identifying a lover who has OD'ed, or that his "Song of the Vipers" glorifies pot smoking. All these tunes date from before 1935..... Marcel Simon