Word: boppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America smokes thinking men's cigarettes, it sings feeling men's songs. The Rock 'n' Roll Romantic today beats out the worries of the age; he synthesizes the intellectual (Charlie Brown), the successful (Elvis Presley), and all other concerns into a libidinal lyric. One big bopper says more about America than Max Lerner; and the CRIMSON, never unpercipient of current social and intellectual trends presents its quasi-annual song round-up. Harvard if not singing should keep swinging...
Naturally, the American singer is sophisticated enough to realize that love involves submission; and he struggles with the question of whether this submission involves a higher freedom or mere restrictions. The late Big Bopper caught this metaphysical problem and reduced it to concrete terms. His lyric wrestles with the problem of freedom on three levels, the personal, the social framework, and the allegorical transcendental dialectic...
...Stoney. Says he: "We older fellows -we've got to go cool. But those little ones coming up. They're the real problem. Something's got to be done about them, or I don't know where we'll be at." Stoney, a leading bopper in his day, was not fooling. Only recently, he was attacked by three shook-up gang members...