{"id":2085,"date":"2017-10-17T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T21:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T22:00:05","slug":"kids-these-days-and-their-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2017\/10\/17\/kids-these-days-and-their-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids These Days… and Their Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folk music underwent a major resurgence in the mid-1900s. In this time, folk music served as a major vehicle for spreading and reinforcing major social movements. Naturally however, wherever in history one finds an attempt to enact social change, one can just as easily find a backlash to said proposed social reform. As Sir Isaac Newton put it so eloquently: “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”\u00a0<\/em>(Admittedly, Newton was referring to thermodynamic systems, not societal ones, but the statement holds nonetheless) This brings me neatly to today’s artifact – an opinion piece by Harry Golden from 1967 titled: Only in America… Democracy Hangup<\/em>1<\/sup><\/a>. There is a certain irony present throughout the article, but it peaks when Golden, after spending more than one paragraph complaining about liberal college students, says:<\/p>\n

“It is for that reason we have checks and balances written in the Constitution. Left to their own devices, the collegians would elect Bob Dylan President and Joan Baez Secretary of State.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If only Golden could see America now – how the turntables have turned!<\/p>\n\n\n