Slow train coming...

Dr. X posts this from the Algonquin:

"Here is a video of Buddy Holly playing to an upper-crust crowd in NYC in 1957. It is a bit more than a year after he played the Apollo. The clip bears watching a couple of times, to get the full impact of the society matron introduction ('rock and roll specialists' indeed!), to note the ever-so-slight sashaying of debutante hips, to appreciate the sight of the West Texas kid in a tuxedo... Rock, of course, began in a lot of places, but this is surely one of them. That fellow standing in front of the amplifier is...how would the semioticians say it...interrogating the ideological assumptions of bourgeois pleasure...or something to that effect. And it's very good."