Ill even omit my customary lame professor humor about the ncaa tournament, for example, thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute though about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the post revolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happens to music nick the 1960s. You worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave without justice a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with is the sense of disappointment that the revolution somehow end nd the early 1970s, that popular music became a disappointment as thetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve tried to do is say o kay, maybe if we shift perspective, if we dont simply buy the asumgtss thpgss that we the age of countercultural music i we do that, we may see music engaged in