“Popular music often serves to insulate young people against the authority of the previous generation, and the commercial search for the Latest makes generation tension over music virtually automatic. But in rock’s heyday there was a special intensity on both sides. On one side, generational defiance:… ‘Rock and Roll is here to stay’ (Danny and the Juniors). On the other: Perry Como…, adult fear and loathing” (Todd Gitlin, qtd. in David Shumway, Rock Star, 2014).
Danny & the Juniors “At the Hop”
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