Volume 17, Number 7 · November 4, 1971

The You and Me that Used to Be

By Margot Hentoff
Caught in the Quiet
by Rod McKuen

Stanyon Books/Random House, 64 pp., $3.00

Listen to the Warm
by Rod McKuen

Random House, 115 pp., $4.50

The Nashville Sound
by Paul Hemphill

Pocket Books, 209 pp., $1.25 (paper)

Freakshow
by Albert Goldman

Atheneum, 384 pp., $10.00

When you are young, pop music is everywhere—has been everywhere for the young since the advent of the radio and the car. Promising promises to the early adolescent and recalling past frissons to those old enough for nostalgia, such music creates its own calendar, memory bank, and even an identity for those inchoate young who take the measure of one another by what they like.



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