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Article: From the editor's desk August 2004: a conversation between Ingrid Sischy and Camille Paglia.(View)
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- August 1, 2004
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INGRID SISCHY: It's our annual music issue, so I thought it would be good to talk about a subject you've been interested in for a long time: rock-star style. Take it away.
CAMILLE PAGLIA: Well, from the moment rock 'n' roll was born in the 1950s, most aspiring rock stars modeled themselves on Elvis Presley: the brooding rebel in proletarian blue jeans, half hipster, half hood, like Marion Brando and James Dean. But by the mid-1960s, when I was in college, the British mod trend had turned rock stars into dandies. It was a rejection of the corporate gray-flannel suits of the conformist 1950s. Young men grew their hair long and started experimenting with fine ...