Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power, a man of the central party machine," said Fred Oldenburg, a senior analyst with the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne. East Germans mockingly call Krenz a "professional youth" because he has continued to dabble in youth affairs despite his age, organizing and attending rock concerts that are intended to pacify restless youngsters. A West German television crew, interviewing East Germans at random the day of Krenz's appointment, turned up evidence of the popular disdain. "He's one of the concrete heads," said a young man. Remarked an elderly woman: "They should all step...
Byrne added that rock music has lost much ofits radicalism, saying, "The most subversive stuffis like Ozzy Osborne, which offends parents andJesse Helms...
...Byrne said his new albums are not a total departure from his previous work because rock, pop and rhythm and blues have exposed people to a "healthy dose" of African tradition--which has a great influence on Latin American music...
...think [rock] has the kind of charge orpower it once had. It's a commodity, it's aproduct, it's big business," he said...
...despite his feeling that rock music haslost its power, Byrne said he had not turned to"tropicalismo" for political reasons. "I wouldhope that I could weasel out of the position ofcultural emissary...I'm just doing it because Ilove it, it's music I like...