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Rock Superstars:What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?这篇文章选自美国1974年的一期高中生杂志（Senior Scholastic）,作者在文中着重从社会学的角度探讨摇滚乐的社会意义。在文章的头三段里，作者以相同的手法描写了三位摇滚歌星的表演盛况。青少年把他们视为偶像，赞美不绝，而成年观众则觉得他们恶心，难以忍受，这反映了青少年和成人社会对摇滚乐截然不同的态度。接着作者引用社会学家和音乐家的话，指出摇滚乐是“一种社会心理的表现”，它“表现其时代”，是各种思想交锋的场所。在这个辩论的论坛上，摇滚歌星们不但表达了青少年对各种政治与社会问题的立场和观点，帮助社会解释其信仰与态度，而且也表达了青少年的情感和愿望。作者在文章的结尾重又提出副标题里的问题，旨在鼓励读者认真考虑这个问题。 Rock—摇滚乐的英文全名叫Rock Roll, Rock’n’Roll或Rock music，于20世纪50年代兴起于美国，继而风靡世界。初期的摇滚乐基本上是由典型的黑人音乐“节奏与布鲁斯”（Rhythm Blues）和传统的白人音乐“乡村与西部”（Country Western）两类乐种融合而成的。1954年白人乡村音乐歌手比尔.黑利（Bill Haley）首次把R B 的曲式融于自己的音乐中，于是，一种白人和黑人青少年都酷爱的新型音乐——摇滚乐——诞生了。此后，摇滚乐以其顽强的青春活力茁壮成长，蓬勃发展。民谣音乐（Folk Music）、爵士音乐（Jazz Music）和流行音乐（Pop Music）等音乐形式也都相继融于摇滚乐中，形成了各种不同风格的摇滚乐；摇滚歌星们也以各自不同的舞台形象和演唱风格争奇斗艳，大放异彩。从50年代直到90年代，摇滚乐走过了一个又一个辉煌时代，一直深受广大青少年的喜爱。 T Rock is the music of teenage rebellion.John Rockwell, rock music critic By a man’s heroes ye shall know him.Robert Penn Warren, novelistIt was mid-June,1972, the Chicago Amphitheatre（圆形露天剧场） was packed, sweltering, rocking. Onstage, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was singing “Midnight Rambler.” Critic Don Heckman was there when the song ended. “Jagger,” he said, “grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.”It was late December, 1973. Some 14,000 screaming fans were crunching up to the front of the stage at Capital Center, outside Washington, D.C. Alice Cooper, America’s singing ghoul, was ending his act. He ends it by pretending to end his life — with guillotine. His “head” drops into a straw basket. “Ooh,” gasped a girl dressed in black. “Oh, isn’t that marvelous?” Fourteen-year-old Mike Perlie was there too, but his parents weren’t. “They think he’s sick, sick, sick,” Mike said. “They say to me, ‘How can you stand that stuff?’”It was late January, 1974. Inside the Nassau Coliseu