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TIME Magazine, June 18, 1956, p. 54:     In Boston Roman Catholic leaders urged that the offensive music be boycotted... In Minneapolis a theater manager withdrew a film featuring the music after a gang of youngsters left the theater, snake-danced around town, and smashed windows. In Birmingham champions of white supremacy decried it as part of a Negro plot against the whites...     The object of all this attention is a musical style known as "rock 'n' roll," which has captivated U.S. adolescents as swing captivated prewar teen-agers and ragtime vibrated those of the '20s...     Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice aforethought...     The fad began to flame a couple of years ago, when pop music was so languid and soupy that kids could no longer dance to it-- and jazz headed farther out... It caught on with the small record companies, e.g., Dot, King, Sun, that flourish in the Southern, Central, and Western states, and soon it grew too big for the majors to ignore...     If one of the current heroes is announced-- groups such as Bill Haley and his Comets or The Platters, or a soloist such as Elvis Presley-- the shrieks become deafening. The tumult completely drowns out the sound of the spastically gyrating performers despite fully powered amplification...     Psychologists feel that rock 'n' roll's deepest appeal is to the teener's need to belong; the results bear passing resemblence to Hitler mass meetings...     Pop record maker Mitch Miller, no rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony."