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...Teresa Gillett, vice-chairwoman of the National Episcopal Peace Fellowship and a staff member for GBPAC, said yesterday that the post-election date for the nationwide action was chosen because, "Regardless of which way the election went we had a cause to raise"--either to demand that Nixon withdraw troops or, if McGovern had won, to demand that Nixon begin implementation of McGovern's policies during his Jame duck period...
...want to alert people to the fact that war is still going on," Gillett said...
...Gillett, who is an Englishman, indulges in some shaky transatlantic sociology while trying to explain how the music transcended the color line and why postwar youth-through its excessive leisure time and readiness to flaunt opposition to the adult world-was eager to accept the rough, driving new sound. Written originally as an M.A. thesis, The Sound of the City sometimes gives off a faint odor of scholarly stuffiness. It is startling to see early greats like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Bo Diddley referred to, in the best tradition of academic criticism, by their surnames. Saying Domino without Fats...
...Gillett is at his frequent best talking about five basic styles that finally merged into rock: Northern band, New Orleans dance blues, rockabilly from Memphis, Chicago rhythm and blues and vocal group rock. With great skill, he shows how they developed independently of each other, and how gutsy, sexy rhythm-and-blues tunes (mainly black) were homogenized into white rock and roll...
Unlike some rock fans, Gillett also understands that rock, alas, is as much an industry as an art. Today it is easy to forget that back in the early 1950s, a new musical trend had little chance of gathering momentum unless it was supported by a major record company (Columbia, RCA Victor, Decca, Capitol). Shamelessly, the majors scoured the catalogues of small, regional record companies for top-notch rock and roll songs, then rerecorded them in what the trade calls "cover" versions, using their own stars. Shamefully, most of the radio disk jockeys-with exceptions like Freed -obliged...