"Society’s Child" was written and recorded by Janis Ian in the late 1960’s. The song’s subject, an interracial relationship in which the young woman’s family does not approve, was considered scandalous for its time, and resulted in a wave of angry reactions across the nation, including the burning down of an Atlanta radio station when a DJ played the song on the air.
Even in the otherwise peaceful and upscale San Fernando Valley enclave known as Encino, Janis recalls on her website about the unhappy people who bought tickets to her concert just so they could yell out racial epithets when she sang “Society’s Child.” |
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