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This week, I'm teaching my Music Appreciation class about The Beatles (duh) and this very topic came up. The Beatles were the vanguard of the first wave of popular musicians to get involved in politics, and the music of the 60's became irrevocably linked to the protests and politics of the 60's.
As I told the class, I believe that we paid more attention to celebrities back then because so few of them spoke out. When you saturate the AP wire with every moron's blathering opinion, people stop listening.
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