Rock ‘N’ revolution - The past two decades have been exceptionally fruitful for social comment in popular music,which may be key to the battering it takes from politics. Popular music — punk, alternative, rap,hip-hop, folk, rock, and R&B — is one of the few places left for anything resembling democraticdialogue. The least capital-intensive mass medium, and until recently, the least subject to contentcontrol on the class-race-gender spectrum, music lets those with no voice in our culture reach abroad audience — a precious and increasingly rare opportunity.The story begins with the original punk band’s snarl to the future that Thatcher / Reagan / Bush/ Clinton had in store for us: “Anarchy in the U.K.”, by the Sex Pistols. The sound, as much as thewords, constitutes the rebellion.From Mother Jones magazine. - O TEXTO É SOBRE :