Nancy Jeffries, however, argues that Keineg's musical career must be viewed against the backdrop of the decline of the pop-music industry over the last 10 years.

Marilyn Manson Every few years, like clockwork, the pop-music industry presents to the American public for its delectation a rock star so base, so vile, so offensive to common decency, that he must be stifled.

SPORTSSUNDAY Younger and Younger For the pop-music industry, the new arbiters of taste are children ages 5 to 13.

Blaming the situation on the conservatism of the pop-music industry is the easy way out; pop music is big business, and big business has never been comfortable with art that takes risks.

Sir Cliff Richard is the eternal Peter Pan of the British pop-music industry, a 56-year-old moppet who has kept his looks, his crooner's voice and his appeal to the mothering instinct for more than 30 years.

Another is that the superficial homogenization of popular culture - through Hollywood, the pop-music industry and the Anglicization of technical communication - promotes an accentuation of parochial identities as a kind of a reaction.

Another musical, "Expresso Bongo," a sendup of the pop-music industry based on the career of Tommy Steele, was filmed in 1960 with Laurence Harvey as its star.

Playing exclusively to white audiences open-minded enough to listen to older music and recording on small budgets, these older black musicians have been left behind by the black pop-music industry and have found a haven in a new, younger and whiter audience.

Learning that tradition takes time and effort, a luxury that runs counter to the demands of the pop-music industry.