Rock and roll
| Rock and roll link | |
|---|---|
| Start | 1951 |
| Genre of popular music which saw a - managed -demise by the 1990s. | |
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Demise
Billy Corgan, frontman for The Smashing Pumpkins believes that rock was purposely dialed down beginning in the late 1990s. "I think, and I will say it overtly, I think that rock has been purposely dialed down in the culture. Again, this gets 'wizard behind the curtain,' right? Somebody's gonna say, 'Well, how do you know who was the wizard behind the curtain?' All I know is I saw the gravity shift. If you were at MTV or around MTV in 1997 or 1998, suddenly they decided rock was out when rock was still very, very high up in the thing. And it was replaced by rap... Their standards and practices immediately shifted, so now that things that weren't allowed were suddenly allowed. People were waving guns. Some people assert that the CIA was involved in all that. Again, above my pay grade, but I saw it happen. I did witness it happen."[1]
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