I'm not arguing against Dionysian excess, per se. Whether you like rock, jazz or classical is irrelevant, let alone fashionable political gestures. Leonard Bernstein, then conductor of the New York Philharmonic, held a fund-raiser/party for the Black Panthers, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe as Radical Chic. My point was that rock em…
I'm not arguing against Dionysian excess, per se. Whether you like rock, jazz or classical is irrelevant, let alone fashionable political gestures. Leonard Bernstein, then conductor of the New York Philharmonic, held a fund-raiser/party for the Black Panthers, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe as Radical Chic. My point was that rock embraces excess; jazz and classical moderation, and that a huge cultural shift occurred, popular musical taste being a huge part of it.
I'm not arguing against Dionysian excess, per se. Whether you like rock, jazz or classical is irrelevant, let alone fashionable political gestures. Leonard Bernstein, then conductor of the New York Philharmonic, held a fund-raiser/party for the Black Panthers, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe as Radical Chic. My point was that rock embraces excess; jazz and classical moderation, and that a huge cultural shift occurred, popular musical taste being a huge part of it.