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#1 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 20 May 2014 03:25:59 GMT
| "There's a sense of this in Goodfellas. It's like time stands still for the Italian-Americans in the 60s. They're still going to the same night clubs and lietsning to the same old music though times are changing all around them through the 60s."This was parodied in Spinal Tap when the cab driver won't shut up about Sinatra. "Italians were never comfortable with Rock and Roll. In the Fifties they concentrated more on the doo-wop side of things, which was more a continuation of early 50's pop than Rhythm and Blues. In the 60's they were either 50's throwbacks (Four Seasons) or represented the more conservative side of their sub-genres as with the Young Rascals (rock and roll) or Vanilla Fudge (psychedelic rock). And of course they so easily abandoned Rock when Disco arrived in the 70's."Guidos are a related phenomena. They never gave up the disco era. Among young Italian Americans, there are two groups culturally: the guido types and a rock n' crowd that gets less attention in the media. The latter group was dominant during the 90's. They could have made a version of Satuday Night Fever about young Italian men in New City in the 70's who were obsessed with Black Sabbath, wore motor cycle boots(even if they didn't oven a MC), did tons of drugs like PCP and sprayed graffiti on Subway trains on Saturday night instead of going to the disco. |
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