The Seventh Stream

This Hallmark Hall of Fame production is based on a magical old Celtic legend. A beautiful and mysterious lady (DEEP BLUE SEA's Saffron Burrows) brings joy to the life of a lonely widower who falls in love with her. But the denizens of the idyllic seaside town in which they live suspect that her reported magic powers are more harmful than good. Is their distrust unfounded, or is the lovely sorceress hiding a dark side?

Philip Ennis presents a major social and cultural study of the origins and evolution of "rocknroll." With masterful command of general trends and telling details, he describes the artistic, economic, and political context that nurtured this radically new popular music. This "seventh stream," which drew from existing forms of pop music, began as a youth movement of rebellion and remains a worldwide banner of youth in search of alternatives. "Rocknroll" emerged, he shows persuasively, from the successive...