Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Country music, that vivid, livid mirror of America's loves and hates, reflects a growing target: the rich. Listen to Johnny Paycheck, folk philosopher with a gritty guitar...
Everybody knows that $1 million isn't what it used to be, and it is also common wisdom that even the highest-paid corporate executives earn less than such folk idols as disc jockeys, movie and rock stars and even country music heroes; Johnny Paycheck will be good for $1 million or more this year...
...individualism, moderation. He concludes that the press pays too much attention to the nation's Government and corporate ruling elites, and too little to the poor and powerless. As one remedy, he proposes a national Endowment for News to ladle out Government money to improve coverage of ordinary folk, and even to buy TV sets and newspaper subscriptions for poor people. That scheme is so wildly impractical, so ripe for abuse that it would probably get the sociologist laughed out of every writers' saloon in the nation. A pity. Gans has done a lot of thinking about...
Eliot describes the ever deepening frustration Ochs endured as his songs and his career failed to reach the minds of his contemporaries. It all began, though, in 1962 in the Greenwich village folk clubs, which then featured singers like Peter Yarrow, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan. It was a time when "anyone with a pocketful of tunes, a guitar, and the guts to get up on stage was singing folk music." Ochs started out with songs like "One More Parade and "The Power and the Glory...
...Ochs had to contend with Dylan, the king of the folk scene. Throughout the book Eliot creates the book's pathos by contrasting Ochs' career with Dylan's. The first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing. sold 40,000 copies. It came out at the same time, Eliot notes, as Dylan's gold album, Bringing It All Back Home...