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1. Questions:
(1) What does the author attempt to illustrate with the three examples? What similarities have you noticed concerning the writing of these examples?
(2) Why does the author say that the questions listed in paragraph 4 are not idle questions?
(3) What is the social significance of rock music according to Horowitz?
(4) How did Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones differ from each other politically?
(5) Has the author given a complete answer to the question he raises in the title? Why do you think the author ends the article in the way he does?

2. Discussion:
(1) What other major subjects did rock music deal with apart from politics?
(2) How do you account for the statement that “Rock music is really a sociological expression rather than a musical force?
(3) What make the American youth worship their rock stars with such intense passion?
(4) What does rock music tell us about the American people and society? It is right to dismiss it as decadent?
(5) As a Chinese, what is your attitude toward rock music? Why?