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Rock - rejects cheap sentimentality! Pop ("hit-me-in-the-face-because-l-love-you" kind of thinking)

Spread of inauthentic romanticism - mainstream

Rock and blues - a lot in common - dead with establishment - not all that nice - imprisons us in stereotypical reactions, environment

Blues absolutely central

Robert Plant, "But there are lot ofthese English (...) that has no representation ofsubtlety at air

No longer listen to what is essential - Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson

RockWroll copies rock'n'roll

Nonę of them goes back to original sources

Just listen to what is commercially successful - bludgeon, hit sb's ears

Problem: rock doesn't want to keep connection with what itgrew out of

Crucial tradition

Robert Ray, 'Vulgar Boatman'

"Whats really interesting about rock'n'roll is that its truły radical aspect occurs at the level of sound... Tutti Frutti is far morę revolutionary than Lennon's "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World", and the sound of Dylan's wice changed morę people's ideas about the world than his political message did"

True, subversive quality - the grain of voice

Not an open statement - Tm for this, l'm for that" - the level of sound !

Richard Penniman, little Richard

"There could not have been a Michael Jackson if there had not been a Little Richard"

"A contemporary..."

wild man of rock'n'roll - the originator, the architect of rock'n'roll - one of the most famous