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...special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...
Today's music in England, particularly that of the punk movement, reflects a much more negative attitude of British youth toward their country than that of the early sixties, the professor says, adding that this trend emerged from a "post-sixties cynicism," caused by increasingly tough economic times in England. Although Schama has a deep interest in classical music and opera, he has maintained his interest in rock. His favorite contemporary musician is Ian Dury, best known in this country for his song "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick." Although Dury "is thought to be a punk rocker," Schama says...
...major difference between British and American rock music of today, Schama says, is the degree of cynicism that each displays. The punk movement in England is built on a "culture of hatred and a collapse of role models" for today's youths. In America, on the other hand, the punk movement was based much less on economic problems and was more of a fad. "In America, the punk movement is not nearly as ferocious as in England--you'd be much less likely to see people doing things like putting safety pins through their cheeks...
Many of the show's liveliest moments involve demonstrations. A restaurant owner paid a four-piece band called the Fantastix only half its $320 fee because, he said, many of his customers walked out when the group began playing punk numbers instead of the agreed-upon country and western. The musicians brought a guitar and fiddle on the show, launched into a sample tune, Orange Blossom Special, and won their suit. In the case of the permanent that wasn't, Beauty Salon Operator Katharina Binder borrowed a glass of water from the judge and dunked a strand...
...such as George Rochberg) and so-called minimalists all striving to make new music vital again. Glass generally is lumped with Composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley in the minimalist camp because of his simple melodies and his dependence on repetition instead of traditional motivic development. An admirer of punk and New Wave music, Glass is unabashed about his aims: "We've had 70 years of pieces since Schoenberg that no one understands," he says, "so there's nothing really wrong with a little contemporary music being appealing...