He had been a local rock star in his youth, and was now working on a book of photographs of the city.
Though it began as more of an experiment in guitar noise and feedback than a rock band, Sonic Youth has cemented its legacy as one of the most important acts of its era, influencing countless performers both directly and indirectly.
And planetary youth culture will be rock 'n' roll and rap.
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Considering the number of boomers who spent their youth going to loud rock shows without earplugs, and the generations coming up behind whose ears have been abused by years of booming Beats by Dre, hearing loss is endemic.
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The local Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) backed the campaign to honour Strummer's name, with a spokesman saying the musician embodied the "atmosphere of youth, rebellion, night and rock" and had "carried the name of Granada... for the entire world".
Several of the kids who participated in "Journey for Change, " a youth empowerment program founded by activist Malaak Compton-Rock, were asked to blog about their experiences last August when they traveled to South Africa.
Mr. MONROE: Today's youth commonly express the blues through music like rap and rock.
Except at weddings and the christenings that sometimes followed them, there were no young among the congregations of the three churches, and with nostalgia Bartholomew now and again remembered Youth Reach and Youth Action and the Saturday rambles to Kilmashogue and Two Rock.
The youth culture of the 1960s may have promoted sexual license, but glam rock was the first mainstream pop movement to trade on androgyny and sexual ambiguity.
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What's to stop Clear Channel Communications, (which, since acquiring SFX Entertainment last year, has a virtual monopoly of the acts, the concert venues and the radio promotion of big rock tours in America and is now being sued by a competing promoter in Denver on precisely those grounds) from repackaging Jurassic Rock for middle-aged fans hoping to recapture a few magic moments of their youth?
There was already tremendous curiosity about the West, especially on the part of Soviet youth, voracious for movies (particularly Tarzan and westerns), music (rock and jazz, even though they were banned) and other aspects of American life.
Though Sonic Youth never achieved mainstream pop-music success, its members are recognized as pioneers of the alternative rock scene a band that helped break ground for groups such as Nirvana and Hole.
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