Doug Henwood Talks

On May 28, 2006, at 2:08 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:

In my right-wing days, we thought that

Dylan’s “My Back

Pages” was a great conservative song :

Of course it is really more of an anti-political song

I’m always amazed and amused by how Dylan fans - including my father- in-law - don’t want to admit to the right-wing content of the song.
The way he spits out “equality in school” is not apolitical - it’s
from someone who hates the very idea. “Liberty” is a very right-wing
word. The contempt for professors and abstractions is right out of
American right-wing populism.

National Review isn’t entirely wrong about this. There’s a deep
streak of American individualism in rock and roll, and it’s not just
Ted Nugent. I love the Kinks (does anyone listen to them anymore?),
but their politics are often pretty right wing. The anti-disco moment
of punk was full of racism and homophobia. Not in every case, for
sure, but it’s there.

Doug

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