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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2004/03

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:32:51 -0500

"Compare the history of the novel to that of rock =E2=80=98n=E2=80=99 roll.
Both started out
a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several
subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and e
pochs.
Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels

attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop a
nd
rolling over classical music."

-W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic
=E2=80=9CMaterial Differences,=E2=80=9D Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a
Cultural Style
in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)