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Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm
Collection StructureFiring Line broadcast records > Episode guide > Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm
Item Title Salvation, Rock Music, and the New Iconoclasm
Guest Link, Peter
Guest Courtney, C. C.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedNovember 04, 1969
Description

Our guests are the authors and stars of Salvation, a rock show "advertised and generally thought of," as WFB puts it, "as the successor to Hair." We begin by listening to a few minutes of their work, "at roughly the sound level," according to WFB, "the audience hears it at" in the theater. Mr. Courtney demurs from that description: "The playing of that music at the level at which you hear it in the theater is impossible. Unfortunately, the people at home are sitting there with three-inch speakers on their television sets, due to the desire of the television manufacturers in this country to save as much money as possible to rob you of your needed sound." And so on, through denunciations of hypocrisy regarding sex, the importance of "vibrations" in rock music, and the rest of the kid scene A.D. 1969. Where this show sometimes misses as conversation, it works as illustration.

Language(s)
Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 175
Record Number80040.175
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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