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...French rendering of rock 'n' roll sometimes sounds like a musical accompaniment to Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée. While U.S. rockers chant wide-eyed changes on adolescent love, requited and otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are inclined to peer through their existentialist glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Help Jerry make it go right." In three minutes flame welled up in the launching stand. "She's going!" howled a woman on the beach. Down dropped the last of Big Annie's moorings. A man cried: "She's off!" All along the beaches the chant picked up new voices, a soaring, surging chain reaction sent them into a recitative: "Go!" they yelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Flight of Big Annie | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...game continues in silence. It seems to be played better in the dark, and the Undergraduate Athletic Committee cooperates by dimming the lights on the bridge at 5:45. The players then chant the Sputnikchant, which sounds something like "Doyouseeityet...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: College Sputnikwatchers Gather In Darkness to Play New Sport | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

Over the intricate rhythms of drums hovered the fluid notes of a single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Song of India | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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