pproach, showing in this case a TV stage benefit using rock music to attract the kids and their money to a good cause. From the first, the music was associated with youth and with the natural desire of the young to have something that was their own, something different from what was admired by their elders. The question asked in these movies was the question being asked in society - was this music good or bad for the young people listening to it? Ehrenstein and Reed state: "The standard answer provided by the films was yes AND no. 'Yes,' the new music probably was damaging to the morals of youth, but it was also concluded that cause for alarm existed only if these leaders of tomorrow allowed their rock and roll impulses to remain unchanneled toward loftier, nobler goals" (p. 32). In other words, they would get over it.
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