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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Why Punk Happened
Description: Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens in rockânârollâŠI hate the use of the clichĂ© of âa perfect storm,â but thatâs precisely what Iâm talking aboutâŠa bunch of things involving culture, politics, demographics, economics and technology all collide and mix in just the right way for something totally new and unexpected to be createdâŠ
Lemme give you some examplesâŠElvis came along in the 1950s just as millions of post-war kidsâthese new constructs that were now called âteenagersââbegan gravitating to new radio stations that played music derived from a mix of the blues, country a...