| Description | Track 1: Kingsley Amis talks about the first time he saw the film 'Rock Around the Clock' and its impact; he says that the idea that pop music sells sex to teenagers is not true; he believes that people can 'graduate' from pop and become interested in jazz and classical music, it can introduce people to poetry, 3.25 mins
Track 2: He says that only a minority graduate from pop music, but the majority stay with it, and it is better to have some music than none; he talks about Tchaikovsky's use of Russian folk music and the origins of jazz, he says that pop does not incorporate enough from other traditions to make it musically interesting; he talks about the difference between pop music and muzak, 3.38 mins
Track 3: He talks about what music should express, and says that pop music, like all other music, expresses emotion, even in a vulgar, inefficient way; he doesn't care that pop music is produced to be sold and marketed because all art has been produced for bad reasons, for example, Mozart was a court composer, 2.38 mins
Track 4: He talks about his own progress from listening to dance orchestras to classical music and jazz and pop music as a way in to other music, 2.03 mins
Track 5: He talks about protest songs - he says that true musicians will not allow their sensibilities to be dulled by bad music, neither will a true protestor be affected by 'phoney' protest; the interviewer asks whether he thinks only a tiny minority are interested in culture - he talks about jazz becoming respectable - he does not believe that music can come to people in the mass; he does not believe that it is worth changing society to change the musical appreciation of youth, 3.33 mins
Track 6: Silence, 3.22 mins
Total: 18.41 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0358680 |