Oldies etc.

[Chris Stolz]

Hey, I think it is not entirely accurate to state that pop music
became political with Dylan.  There is a long and honourable
tradition of folk music with very political concerns.  The
working classes and the left, who in america occasionally get
together, produced lots of union and political tunes, especially
in the '30s and '40s.  Much black music (blues, early jazz etc.)
was also "political" insofar as it dealt in sexuality and was
produced by the people at the bottom of the power structure.

It might be more accurate to say that subcultural popular culture
used to be mmore fragmented than it is now, where all kinds of
art and artisits and traditions rub shoulders.

Pynchon is very cognisant of the political aspects of early 20th
century american culture, as shown by vineland's family union
history and the many song references in it,f and ny GR's toying
with similar motifs.


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