| Description | Track 1: Colin MacInnes explains why he thinks pop music today has less 'social content' than music hall and discusses the reasons for this, which include the closer connection between the music hall singer and audience than the pop singer in the recording industry, music hall songs based on Viennese waltzes or degenerated folk songs, the impact of ragtime and the American idiom, there was a greater need for working-class protest before the end of the First World War than there is now because society has become more prosperous, 3.29 mins
Tracks 2-3: They discuss music appealing to teenagers; teenagers and class; the interviewer asks why rock broke through and appealed to teenagers in 1956 - Colin MacInnes suggests that teenagers had more money, an adolescent, post-war generation emerged, and discusses social protest during the 1950s
Track 4: The interviewer asks whether teenagers today want to reject the values of their parents - Colin MacInnes says that he does not know today's teenagers, but suggests that protest in pop has disappeared because it is now accepted that teenagers exist and have music of their own, 2.35 mins
Track 5: He talks about folk music, which he does not like, he respects people who come from the folk tradition, he thinks that folk singers do not put over their message effectively because they are 'corrupted by moral certitude', modern folk songs in the charts are 'banal', 2.20 mins
Track 6: He talks about the appeal of Tommy Steele and of the Beatles
Total: 16.22 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0356180 |