How you going to keep ‘em down on Maggie’s Farm?
From the AP.
Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock ‘n’ roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”
It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
R.I.P., Rock & Roll, it was fun while it lasted. But, a Pulitzer Prize? That just stands for every thing that Rock & Roll is not supposed be; doesn’t it?
You can’t get more mainstream, establishment, bourgeois than a Pulitzer. First Al Gore decides to be a concert promoter then, a Lemmy action figure, now this.
Pack up the fuzz pedal boys, might as well call it a day. We were once barbaric and subversive but, that time has passed. Break out the goat cheese and Chardonnay.
But wait….hold on just a second here….”received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday”…honorary….Honorary…..It’s a damn honorary Pulitzer Prize; not a real one. They don’t really mean it. Honorary Pulitzer Prize; That’s like saying, “I like what you’re trying to do” or, “I love that outfit, it makes you look less fat”.
Whew!! That was a close one. Had me going there for a sec, Pulitzer Prize people, you really did.
I feel better now.
Rock is dead they say,
LONG LIVE ROCK…………..
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Tags: Al Gore, american culture, Bob Dylan, fuzz pedal, goat cheese, Music, pulitzer prize, Rock, whew
Pat wrote,
I guess that makes Bobby a member of the dead poet’s society…
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