Pop Goes The Country
Tony Bennett's experience with Mitch Miller was little different than that of other strong-willed artists on the Columbia roster in the 1950s and early 1960s. Miller often pushed artists to record...
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   Pop music history, like every other kind of history, is a story we tell ourselves about the past to try and make some sense of it. And like any myth, it is continually subject to revision and re-interpretation. It wasn't so long ago that many rock critics who came of age in the 1960s and '70s naively portrayed the story of American pop as a simple before-and-after proposition. The "before" consisted of the shadowy decades before rock and roll, when pop music reflected a conformist white...
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