{"id":437,"date":"2004-06-17T04:29:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T08:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/06\/rock_star_role_models_win_new\/"},"modified":"2004-06-17T04:29:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T08:29:04","slug":"rock_star_role_models_win_new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/06\/rock_star_role_models_win_new\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Star Role Models Win New Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:00 AM ET <BR><br \/>\nBy Jill Serjeant<BR><BR><br \/>\nLOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Hip-swiveling Elvis, womanizer Mick Jagger and &#8220;Material Girl&#8221; Madonna may be some of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll&#8217;s greatest musical icons but as positive role models, they&#8217;ve yet to win many fans.<BR><BR><br \/>\nThink again, argues rock critic Tim Riley. Far from being pilloried as a destructive influence on American youth, Riley says the best rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll music celebrated sexual openness, honored tolerance, individualism and social responsibility in a way that helped baby boomers become better partners and better parents.<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Rock actually helped lead the culture toward a healthier, happier paradigm of male-female relations,&#8221; Riley writes in his book &#8220;Fever: How Rock and Roll Transformed Gender in America.&#8221;<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It depicted the world as a place waiting to be explored and enjoyed rather than as a system of tests to pass or fail,&#8221; Riley writes&#8230;.<BR><BR><br \/>\n[Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=5448276\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/A> for the rest of the article. Giant cash prize for whoever <a href=\"mailto:triley@artsjournal.com\">writes<\/A> in with the giant misquote near the end.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:00 AM ET By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Hip-swiveling Elvis, womanizer Mick Jagger and &#8220;Material Girl&#8221; Madonna may be some of rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll&#8217;s greatest musical icons but as positive role models, they&#8217;ve yet to win many fans. Think again, argues rock critic Tim Riley. Far from being pilloried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}