Jazz & Pop '69

Jazz & Pop '69In a year of social and political upheaval---assassinations, growing racial polarization, the end of innocence for the Eugene McCarthy crusaders---the young of all political persuasions, including none, found a center of emotional gravity in music. Only there, it often seemed, was direct, open communication possible---transcending race and class and politics. And the artists, themselves feeling the need for secure foundations as fissures deepened in the outer world, devoted much of...