1.) “In 2001 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the music industry and against Napster, declaring free music file-swapping illegal an in violation of music copyrights held by recording labels and artists.”
It wasn’t long ago that I remember flipping on the nightly news to see that the Napster battle was the top story of the day. At fourteen I remembered hating the ruling, not because I really had any understanding of the legalities behind the issue, but because I could no longer download my favorite music for free. I dreaded being forced back to spending a large chunk of my weekly allowance on $19.99 CDs. Fortunately for me, the demise of Napster only led to the birth of many other file sharing programs, and I now download my music for free from Limewire.
2.) “Another reason for the growth of rock and roll can be found in the repressive and uneasy atmosphere of the 1950s.”
The political agenda of the 1950s encompassed a number of things, among them the Cold War, the Red Scare and the atomic bomb. The book explains that young people were desperately searching for some means of escape. First came the Waltz, then the cakewalk, the
3.) “In the 1950s, legal integration accompanied a cultural shift, and the rock and roll industry’s race and pop charts blurred.”
The book explains a number of ways in which rock and roll was a part of the times. The music was able to find success in both high and low culture, from both men and women, and in both white and black social circles in the north and the south. Until then, and until rock and roll, it was not common for a single style of music to find such widespread success from such varying audiences.
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