| Description | Tracks 1-6: Ewan MacColl talks about pop music as a commodity and the pop music industry; he says he does not believe that pop music reflects young people's feelings, he talks about protest songs in the 1930s such as 'Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime' when 'reality impinged on the pop world' and American songs which reflected society during the Depression, he compares this with contemporary protest songs such as 'Rock Around the Clock', which he sees as a 'nihilistic protest taken up by industry', he talks about speaking to people in the recording industry and the 'conscious manipulation' of taste, he talks about protest in 1956, the skiffle movement, which came from blues recordings and folk poets like Woody Guthrie and the impact of the rediscovery of this music on young people, how these songs relate to deprivations experienced by young people who grew up during the Second World War; the skiffle movement splitting into two parts: the rock and roll movement and the folk revival; his views on Donovan 'an imitator' and Bob Dylan 'at least he writes a decent story'.
Total: 17.11 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0355880 |