Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music Jimmy Carter has catholic tastes. Among his favorites: Mozart, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson, 45, carousing king of outlaw country. At the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the shirt-sleeved President and his pantsuited wife Rosalynn helicoptered in from Camp David to join the ranks of 12,000 fans and hear Willie match vocal cords with Emmylou Harris, 31. When Willie finished Georgia on My Mind, Carter emerged from the sidelines, and the two good ole boys who made good wrapped each other...
...Music knows neither frontiers nor race nor nationalism," the promoter told the crowd of 2,000 Italian and French jazz lovers. With that, Count Basie, 73, the grand old master of keyboard swing, stepped up to a piano placed smack on the Franco-Italian borderline on the Pont St. Ludovic, and with his band launched a medley of such crowd pleasers as Sweet Georgia Brown and Freckle Face. Meanwhile traffic was blocked on both the Italian and French sides of the bridge, and a cacophony of auto horns accompanied the Count. "I've played outdoors before but never like...
...Springsteen found every seat in the house covered with enthusiastic, often evangelic, reviews and "started tearing them all up. He just wasn't ready." Later, he handled the fuss in the same way he deals with all the reflections of his past and refractions of his fantasy: through his music...
...only the spirits of his Catholic childhood showing themselves, raising memories of the kid who was asked to draw a picture of Jesus and presented the nun with a rendering of Christ crucified on a guitar. What also comes through is his unshakable belief in the power of music. "When I was growing up," he says, "the only thing that never let me down was rock 'n' roll." Upon this rock, Springsteen has built his church, which glows not with heavenly light but with the carny fluorescence of a Wurlitzer...
...artificial stimulation of any kind required, either. Using drugs to get up for a concert is for Springsteen "like coming onstage on crutches." He will, however, listen to some good music before a show (Buddy Holly is a current favorite). "It's like an actor watching Brando in Waterfront before he does a scene," Springsteen says. "It just gives you a sense of what the possibilities are, where you can take them, and a sense there's a lot to live...