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...No matter what was in vogue from one decade to the next, the white-bread tune served as Americas musical fiber for most of the 20th century. Its performers sang about love and romance with an élan fluctuating between starry-eyed optimism and wistful melancholy-all with tones that sifted out the chunks of attitude now so common to most jazz, country, blues, R&B, rock n roll, and curious species of world music. The anti-romantic mindset may seem like the desperate wails of overly apologetic liberals or terminal hipsters, but it betrays a reverse-Puritanism practiced (often unconsciously) by people of many political persuasions. Just as rock n roll was the hobgoblin that threatened 1950s suburbia, the vanilla soft sounds associated with Pat Boone are todays bogeyman-an interdiction as parochial, provincial, and ripe for rebellion as the one declared against rock n roll in the days of Ozzie and Harriet. -Vanilla Pop, Sweet Sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA, by Joseph Lanza Page 5 https://m.youtube/watch?v=VvD0_aeAf2E
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:59:41 +0000

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