Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REMEMBER THOSE fabulous '50s?" Chubby Checkers keeps asking on late night T.V. "Remember the music? The drive-ins? Your first prom?" The King of the Twist takes a long look around the mocked-up malt shop and gives a wistful smile, "Well, now you can relive those fabulous...
...those days, that things were going to change. The questioning, anti-social youth hero who became so prevalent in the '60s was an outgrowth of the discontent that the structured '50s produced, especially among the younger people in the country. Rock and Roll emerged; for the first time black music and white music tentatively merged, a synthesis that gained tremendous popularity. The movies too, began to show some shift in outlook among the kids growing up in America. The confused, "unrespectable" heros portrayed on the screen by Dean and Brando were slowly becoming more admired than the incredibly cute, sweet...
...heart of a good woman can't cure. Even in The Buddy Holly Story, which tries to trace the emergence of Rock and Roll, the whole thing comes off as some sort of apple pie success story, ignoring the problems involved in fusing two very different worlds through music. Even Holly's end is treated like some sort of apple-pie tragedy, a pity to be sure, but easily gotten over and sighed at. And all of these stereotypes are quickly becoming the most common surviving keynotes of that...
...Misbehavin'. Fats Waller was a man of foxily mischievous humor, a rollicking hand on the keyboard, and a ravenous appetite for Bach, booze and broads. Old soldiers may fade away, but this jubilant musical tribute proves that the manner and the music of a master jazzman...
...money Hollywood makes from those excesses. The industry has given more than $22 million this election cycle, better than two-thirds of it to Democrats. Gore's campaign has raked in nearly $1 million in individual contributions from those who make their living in television, movies and music. And that was before last week, when on Thursday night alone, Gore and the Democrats raised $6.5 million with the industry's help. The evening included a party at the Central Park West apartment of Miramax Films chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose company has produced such fare as the NC-17-rated "Kids...