Tribe asked:
"Could the absence of complaints about blues be because white
folk never even listened to it and/or they were never popular
with whites, whereas the other pop music forms you mentioned
were getting a stranglehold on the precious white youth of
america?"
That certainly matches my take on the issue, that popular
culture becomes most troublesome when parents of white,
middle-class youth notice their kids' interest in it -- works
with music, movies, comic books, and I'll bet some hardboiled
lit. It's all said to corrupt the young, although some only
use that as a blind behind which to promote keeping it out of
adult hands also. (Feel free to contact me off-list on this
issue; as you can probably tell, this topic is of particular
interest to me.)
Sorta speaking of which, can anyone think of any appearances
in hardboiled of preachers or do-gooders campaigning against
the various aspects on pop culture? I seem to remember
several recent occurrences of this, but no specific
references come to mind.
Mark
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