Title: The Deploring Industry Goes Pop
Product review: This is another of those tsk-tsk surveys of popular culture, intended to prove that the world is going to hell in a handbasketfull of CDs. There's always a market in America for neoconservative scarebooks, but this one is even more smug and thoughtless than the norm. Bayles truly doesn't seem to know the violent, nihilistic stance of pop's folk roots--or perhaps she simply feels that acknowledging this aspect of the tradition would make her Chicken-Little reading of current pop too obviously untenable.
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