AUTHOR: NOEBEL, DAVID A.

Title: Rhythm, Riots and Revolution: An Analysis of the Communist Use of Music - The Communist Master Music Plan -

Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1966 (pbk)

Notes: The Christian Crusade expose of the communist infiltration of the music industry. The front cover (95K) includes a drawing of Dylan playing an electric guitar, and four quotes:

• "Workingmen of all tongues unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win. Vive la Revolution sociale." - PETE SEEGER
• "The Star Spangled Banner is just so much trash." - JOAN BAEZ
• "I want my woman dirty, looking as though I'd just found her in some alley . . . It triggers the animal emotion . . . . " - BOB DYLAN
• "The Vietcong are right . . . We should support Ho Chi Minh . . . " - PHIL OCHS

The chapter on "Like A Rolling Stone" features Phil Ochs' comments published in Broadside #63 (October 15, 1965) about Dylan and the song. Some have theorized that it is Noebel who can be heard shouting "Judas!" (Dylan didn't believe him) before his classic performance of the song at the Free Trade Hall show on May 17, 1966, and that the book cover drawing was actually based on that show.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Communism and music; Music, Popular -- History and criticism.

ISBN: None

Review: In 1971 R. Serge Denisoff in his book Great Day Coming (p. 146-150) chronicled Noebel's work, pointing out its flaws, but calling Rhythm, Riots and Revolution his tour de force. Wissolik, in his 1995 electronic edition, describes the book as "a piece of racist, paranoid trash that passes as a 'Christian' text". This book is also included in the EDLIS reading list. In November 1995, Joe Cliburn reviewed the book on RMD.

Part One: INTRODUCTION ..... 16

1. Communist Use of Mind Warfare ..... 17
2. Power of Music for Good or Evil ..... 19
3. Communist Use of Hypnotism ..... 21
4. Pavlov, Luria and Platonov ..... 22
5. Communist Infiltration ..... 27

1. Nature of Red Record Companies ..... 30
2. Analysis of Red Records ..... 38
3. Social Psychology and Bertrand Russell ..... 47
4. Distribution of Communist Records in United States ..... 48
5. Counterattack, Young People's Records and Torrance, California ..... 57
6. Responsibility to Our Children ..... 74

1. Tampering with our Teenagers ..... 77
2. Pavlov's Conditioned Reflex Technique ..... 82
3. Beatles' Religious Philosophy ..... 95
4. Beatle Performances ..... 108
5. Destructive Nature of Beatle Music ..... 110

1. People's Songs, Inc. and People's Artists, Inc. ..... 121
2. Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie ..... 126
3. Sing Out!, Folkways Records and Oak Publications ..... 137
4. Broadside magazine of New York City ..... 146
5. Communist Subversion of Folk Music ..... 156
6. Folk Music and the Negro Revolution ..... 176
7. Folk Music and the College Revolution ..... 195

1. Definition of Rock 'n' Folk ..... 212
2. Power of the Ballad ..... 213
3. Folkways and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ..... 214
4. Prince of Rock 'n' Folk ..... 216
5. The Rock 'n' Folk magazine ..... 223
6. "Eve of Destruction" and "Like a Rolling Stone" ..... 228

1. Music Hath Charm ..... 234
2. "Hot" Jazz ..... 236
3. Spiritual Implications ..... 237
4. Guide to Action ..... 242
5. Edward Hunter's Brainwashing ..... 245
6. Operation Alert ..... 246
7. H.C.U.A., S.I.S.S. and California's Fact-Finding Subcommittee ..... 247
8. Internal Revenue Service ..... 248
9. Operation Distribution ..... 248

1. Fourth Report of the California Fact-Finding Committee
2. 100 Things You Should Know About Communism and Education
3. May 14th, 1951, Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications
4. Prussian's letter to Glenn
5. Hugh Burns' letter
6. Knight's letter
7. Boucher's letter
8. Bryan's transcript
9. Good Housekeeping letters. A., B. and C.
10. Parents' Magazine's letter
11. National Council of Churches letter
12. Federal Communications Commission letter
13. Fifth Report of the California Fact-Finding Committee
14. House Committee on Un-American Activities Annual Report for 1952
15. News and Views on Seeger
16. House Committee on Un-American Activities Reports for (A) 1960, (B) 1961 and (C) 1962
17. House Committee on Un-American Activities Report on The Communist Party's Cold War against Congressional Investigation of Subversion
18. Books by Oak - Records by Folkways
19. Folkways Newsletter and Federal Government
20. Scholastic Magazine and Folkways Records
21. Scholastic order form for Folkways Records
22. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer andFolkways Records, A and B
23. Broadside
24. International Publishers and Freedom in the Air
25. Almanac Singers
26. Listing of Sing Out!, Broadside songs and singers

Also by this author:

• The Beatles: A Study in Drugs, Sex and Revolution; 1971
• Columbia Records: Home of the Marxist Minstrels; 1967
• Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles: An Analysis of the Communist Use of Music - The Communist Master Music Plan; 1965
• The Homosexual Revolution
• The Legacy of John Lennon
• The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music; 1974
• The Slaughter of the Innocent; 1977
• Suffer Little Children; 1967
• Understanding the Times: The Religions' Worldviews of Our Day and the Search for Truth; 1991

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