----- Original Message ----- 
From: <zoogang@cox.net>
> ---- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
> Eventually, rock and roll will be where jazz is today: an
>> esoteric, specialist taste that is almost invisible in the wider
>> popular culture.
>>
> Rock 'n' roll, "an esoteric, specialist taste..."?= What then, would 
> you say, will be the most widespread, accepted taste? This I've got 
> to hear!
>
Ask me again in 30 years, or sooner if I work out the kinks in that 
time travel experiment I've been playing with in the basement.

So you *do* think the narrow definition of rock and roll (as in 
"Madonna is not rock and roll") is still the dominant force in popular 
culture?

S