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Aging rock 'n' rollers have been quietly defecting to country for years. But since 1990 the process has accelerated sharply. "Elvis Presley was the first time I saw this kind of reaction," says Jimmy Bowen, whose Nashville-based Liberty Records distributes Brooks. "Then I saw it again with the Beatles. And now I see it with Garth Brooks. When you turn on millions of people in a short period of time, that's called a phenomenon...
...country's message makes the music belong, first and foremost, to the baby boomers now coping with being in their 40s. Twenty-year-olds, says record executive Bowen, "are having their first romance, and we're talking about the third divorce over here." If rock is about feral impulses, country is about spiritual nourishment. Cultural critic Camille Paglia, who has celebrated the Dionysian power of rock music in her writings, believes the genre suffered an identity crisis as it moved further from the rural immediacy of folk and blues and lost its restless, questing spirit. "In rock you're getting...
...rarely been as racially polarized as it is in the era of rap. Country fans, who, like their stars, tend to be white, are not shy about describing their music as the musical equivalent of the urban escapism known as white flight. "Thank God for rap," says Bowen. "Every morning when they play that stuff, people come running to us." Says Ralph Emery: "Rap music speaks only to black issues, and has turned a lot of white people...
However, Rudenstine said Bowen probably consulted a faculty advisory committee first, adding, "I wasn't close to the process...
Rudenstine himself served as provost at Princeton University under then-President William G. Bowen for 10 years. Rudenstine said his own appointment was quite simple. "The president asked me," he said, "Just like that...