| Description | Track 1: Geoffrey Reeves interviews Bob Godfrey: he talks about protest songs - the interviewer asks whether protest folk songs are designed to make people think they are protesting when they are not - Bob Godfrey says that people aren't that stupid and protest songs are a good thing and serve a good purpose, he talks about other songs he does not like, he says he thinks the pop industry is corrupt but does not think that pop does harm, 3.22 mins
Track 2: He says that pop does not subliminally corrupt the young; the interviewer says that pop 'dulls people's responses', 2.57 mins
Track 3: Geoffrey Reeves asks what bearing pop has on serious popular art, Bob Godfrey says that pop can be serious social comment and 'serious social artists' will take what they want from pop, 3.57 mins
Track 4: Bob Godfrey says that 'hard times sharpen up the faculties' and there is less protest because society is more prosperous, he talks about the Beatles, Geoffrey Reeves asks how we can turn pop into genuine protest, Bob Godfrey says that he does not believe that this is possible, 3.01 mins
Track 5: They talk about the decline of beat, pop as a form of substitute religion, he talks about the 'ridiculous' old Tin Pan Alley numbers, 'silly' songs from the 1930s, and wartime songs, 2.35 mins
Total: 15.54 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0968880 |