Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AUSTRALIA is the land of koalas, kangaroos and golden beaches. Social unrest seems alien to the territory. But in Sydney in the early '20s, D.H. Lawrence found budding revolution rather than peace, and his experiences inspired Kangaroo, an autobiographical novel about his dissatisfaction with Australian politics...
...blues was successfully marketed to white audiences without the aid of Belushi-esque theatrics. But in addition to capitalizing on its initial novelty as roots rock n' roll, it was flying on wings of social activism and psychedelic drugs. Liberal white people could listen to the blues and feel they were understanding Black culture, even after the centers of Black music had moved to Soul and Motown...
...poor Blacks. On another, the revival was disproving Lead-belly's famous statement that "never has a white man had the blues, 'cause nothin' to worry about." The kids may have been "alright," but from Vietnam to the H-bomb, they had plenty to worry about. These broad social issues were not the sort of thing blues singers had sung about in the past. White musicians like Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Rolling Stones added new irony and social critique to the fabric of the form...
Fifteen years of surviving on the road in a de-radicalized America seemed to have linked them deeper into the blues tradition than the abstractly felt social issues of their youth. And being the ones who led the '60s revival in the first place, they don't rely on anyone to revive them. Their rollicking blend of country-western and cajun blues stands on its own, without glitz...
...American History and Literature concentrator as an undergraduate, Johnson has served as adviser to the student social service association and chief administrator for the building and its permanent staff since coming to Harvard in 1979. He was named to the post of Adams public service tutor last fall...