Zappa and Watts

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In this article, the writer discusses Frank Zappa's song "Trouble Every Day," a song referring to the Watts riots. The writer describes how the song made Americans think about the way that race defined so much of the American experience during the middle decades of this past century. The writer discusses that the commentary on the narrator's observations of the riots is both ironic and brutal, the voice of a person who wishes that everything would change as well as the acknowledgment of a man who thinks that nothing is likely to change soon.

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"Frank Zappa made Americans think about the Watts riots when he wrote and sang Trouble Every Day and even more importantly, he made Americans think about the way that race defined so much of the American experience during the middle decades of this past century. His commentary on the narrator's observations of the riots which might or might not be his own perspective is both ironic and brutal, the voice of a person who wishes that everything would change as well as the ... "

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