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Miller obviously enjoys the moment of The Harder They Come knocking The Sound of Music out of Jamaica's No. 1 slot--implying it was a triumph of rock-'n'-roll attitude over goody-goody moralism.
The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."
Remember, I'm not asking for "Just Say No" ads or any other form of moralism.
Rock seems to have its own mile-wide streak of goody-goody moralism (with some standouts like Janis Ian, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby who are nothing but).
It is the prurient prosecutor who imposed his Puritanical moralism on a sexually liberated if somewhat confused woman--a man who held her against her will, denied her the right to call her lawyer, harassed her mother and brother, flagrantly violated her constitutional rights.