Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rock music for the past five to seven years has been directionless and unmotivated. The fact that power is coming back into rock [June 26] delights me. People don't write songs, at least good songs, about oil embargoes, world economic problems, détente or other assorted unromantic difficulties. I yearn, crave, ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews...
...MacArthur: "Are you sure you want to do that?" When MacArthur gets carried away with visions of an electric soil floor capable of growing 25 Ibs. per sq. ft. of the ripest, reddest, most luscious tomatoes, or the old red barn complete with a nature-food restaurant and live music. Hermie clamps down hard on reality and plays down-Maine Sancho Panza to MacArthur's Don Quixote. Then MacArthur will begin to talk about solid things-like the twelve-by-twelve beams in the old red barn, all meticulously mortised-and down-to-earth ideas...
Singing in the Rain--the classic American movie musical with Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds oozes cutness but manages not to be cloying. You know it's all Hollywood so sit back and escape. Our heroes sing and dance their way to glory, the music is wonderful, and the dance routines are geniunely original and entertaining, no Busby Berkely wedding cake horrors. You really should see if just to say you have, and besides, it's such good clean...
...greats -Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Miles Davis-and not creation. There is no new force on the scene now, and everyone is waiting. Says Rivers: "The cycle is getting ready to go into another violent period, in a sparks-flying sense." Gillespie, for one, is ready. "When our bebop music came along, there was a lot of opposition to our phrasing," he recalls. "But jazz has always had room for all kinds...
Perhaps Betty Carter put it best at Newport. She began her set with / Must Have Music and ended with Movin' On, a song whose relentless one-two rhythm propelled it forward like a speeding train...