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Originally Posted by troutman
An essay linked further down the page:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=19:T490
Rock & Roll John Floyd
Ask 20 people for a definition of rock & roll and you'll get 20 different answers, for everyone has their own idea of what the music is and what it should do. And that's good, because if rock & roll could be defined with a simple, concise description, it would've died sometime in the mid-'60s. Rock & roll defies categorization: you can't trace its origins back to one particular source, you can't define its content with words like "rebellion" or "sexuality," and you can't pinpoint its sensibility with one clever catch phrase. |
That's what is so awesome about it. In my mind, it truly is the pinpoint of what makes Western democracy so great. The development of fusion culture that is so explosive and incredibly dynamic.