the emergence of the gay liberation movement, bound up in music such as glam rock, david bowie, lou reed, bound up in disco. as we said, in a sense, that music was inherently political. something that the really vicious anti-disco campaign drove home. so it seems to me we've started building the idea that post-'60s, american music still is politicized, still is engaged but in a different way, a way that rejected, as we saw with david bowie or we saw with mott the hoople, that rejected countercultural rock. that's where i want to go today in talking, as i promised, about issues of women in popular music in the 1970's. we've already dealt with this before in thinking about the very limited place accorded to women in popular music as a business, as performers really with the idea that women play instruments, that they could only sing. we've seen that's deeply embedded in western culture, western ideas. and yet this is a period in the 1970's of real change in thinking about women. so there's an opportunity for us to say just as there was this political agitation over gay rights and over the

the emergence of the gay liberation movement, bound up in music such as glam rock, david bowie, lou reedc was inherently political. something that the really vicious anti-disco campaign drove home. so it seems to me we've started building the idea that post-'60s, american music still is politicized, still is engaged but in a different way, a way that rejected, as we saw with david bowie or we saw with hoople, that rejected countercultural rock. that's where i want to go today in talking, as i promised, about issues of women in popular music in the 1970s. we've already dealt with this before in thinking about the very limited place accorded to women in popular music as a business, as performers really with the idea that women couldn't place instruments, that they could only sing. we've seen that's deeply embedded in western culture, western ideas. and yet this is a period in the 1970s of real change in thinking about women. so there's an opportunity for us to say just as there was this political agitation over gay rights and over the nature of masculinity, what can we do with the emergenc

. >> louis reed, president of the st lou st louis board, thank you for being with us. >> dan iceman from the st louis police, a former police chief, he's a professor of policing in the community for the university of missouri, and st louis. good to have you with us, chief. having worked in that community, knowing the relationship between police and the people that live there, why do you think things got out of control? >> well, i think that the ramped up police response came in direct relyings to the looting and vandalism that happened the first night. so the police came out with a tougher posture. that created an ongoing cycle that lasted for three days. unfortunately there was no lines of communication, where the police department could reach out to leaders. and give them a window to express themselves and also to extract those people that were causing harm in the neighbourhoods and so it got locked into a cycle where one person ratcheted up the violence, and we could stay on the path until we had dialogue. >> going back to what launched this, the death of michael brown. you said in a

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the emergence of the gay liberation movement, bound up in music such as glam rock, david bowie, lou reed, bound up in disco. as we said, in a sense, that music was inherently political. something that the really vicious anti-disco campaign drove home. so it seems to me we've started building the idea that post-'60s, american music still is politicized, still is engaged but in a different way, a way that rejected, as we saw with david bowie or we saw with mott the hoople, that rejected countercultural rock.