| Description | Track 1: Paul Johnson talks about first becoming interested in pop music in 1964, when politicans 'began to attempt to appropriate' pop music for political purposes - he gives examples of this, he talks about middle-aged people feeling that they are behind the times, he says that pop music is not music or art, 2.50 mins
Track 2: He talks about teenagers going to pop concerts - they go as a kind of ceremony and television shows about pop music, whose experts have no musical knowledge or critical standards, 1.43 mins
Track 3: He talks about pop music filling an emotional need, which can also be filled by religion or sport, he discusses whether it does harm and says that girls can become obsessive, he blames the commercial interests for this and discusses teenagers having money to spend, 3.02 mins
Track 4: He says that pop music dulls critical faculties, he talks about books and music he was interested in when he was young, and young people's sense of discovery, he says pop is an indictment of the educational system - young people come out of school 'culturally uneducated', he sees pop as a form of opiate, characteristic of a capitalist society, 3.16 mins
Track 5: He says the answer to this is to improve the educational system so that people are taught to think for themselves and apply critical standards, he talks about other opportunities available to young people; the interviewer asks whether he has heard any good pop records and whether he considers jazz and folk to be art, he says jazz is a limited form of art, 2.21 mins
Track 6: He talks about folk music as a low form of art, but it is of cultural interest, he says that there is little connection between folk and pop, and discusses folk's association with left-wing politics, and folk's association with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, protest movements in America, 3.01 mins
Total: 16.15 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0779180 |