P7
1. a nerve of disaffection: hit/touch a nerve; a sensitive subject of dissatisfaction/hit some sensitive social problems
2. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection: this metaphor means that Bob Dylan spoke of what people were most dissatisfied with and would respond to impulsively.
3. Mr. Jones: a very common name (generalization; it means one’s neighbor) as in “to keep up with Mr. Jones”. This stands for any man. It is a derivation of the expression “keep up with the Joneses” which was invented by Arthur Momand, the comic-strip artist, for a series in the New York Globe in 1913.
4. fallout: the dangerous dust that is left floating and descending through the air after a nuclear explosion
P8
1. piety: devotion, loyalty, reverence, respect, devoutness, piousness, religiousness/ disloyalty, disrespect, ungodliness
2. The Beatles urged peace and piety…: They advocated world peace and goodness, through expressing human love, often in a bizarre way. Some of them, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, for example, went so far as to circulate nude photographs of themselves as a way to protest against the war in Indochina.
3. a little help from drugs: This maybe somewhat prevents people from using drugs.
4. arrogant: aggressive, self-important, self-assuming, pompous, lordly, vain, overbearing, haughty, presumptuous, pretentious/ polite, modest, considerate, diffident, deferential, bashful, shy
5. radical: extreme, severe, immoderate, drastic, rash/conservative, moderate, middle-of-the-road
P 9
1. hard Rock: the more radical “city” ideas of hard rock
Mixing the more traditional ideas of country and western music into the more radical “city” ideas of hard rock: the traditional themes of country and western music are poverty, the hard life and the sadness of the lower class. The more radical “city” ideas refer to the issues about which urban people were most concerned, such as civil rights, nuclear fallout, and the Vietnam war.
2. musical statement: the introduction of the main phrase or tune in a piece of music
3. Get away from it all, to go back to the old days: People are getting more and more tired from the busy modern city life and hazardous competitions and they wish to get rid of it all. And this makes them recall the prosperous life of the 1950s right after the Second World War
4. John Denver: a rock superstar in the 1970s. His songs are a mixture of country and western music with the musical drive and power of folk rock. This mixture, in a strict sense, is called country rock.
5. music drive: a forceful quality of mind or spirit in music
6. folk rock: traditional idea of country and western music
7. lyrics: words of a song
8. celebrate: praise, extol, exalt, applaud, cheer, venerate/ condemn, despise, dishonor, profane