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ociety's child has
grown up.
Janis Ian, whose
recording of "Society's Child,"
a single about an interracial
couple, sparked a firestorm of
protest and prejudice when
released 24 years ago, has
never gotten over the reaction
accorded the record.
"After all," she says, "I was
only 14 when I wrote and
then recorded it. The reaction
was so scary, so incomprehen-
sible."
In the intervening years,
Ian has come to a better
understanding of social in-
securities. Yet she remains
secure in his own needs.
In many ways, Ian, 38, has
always been a lyrical warrior,
slingshot of words always at
the ready. But she considers
herself more a musical Mac-
cabee than a David.
"When I grow up, I'm going
to be a Maccabee,"she lists on
her bio of ambitions.
Maybe that's because Ian
grew up listening to the
stories of the Maccabees from
her folks and grandparents.
"I heard about them, and
about the shtetl and the
pogroms," Ian recalls of her
Jewish upbringing in Far-
mingdale, N.J., where her
father was a "chicken farmer
who became a teacher," and

her mother was a "waitress
who became a fund raiser."
Both parents bequested an
endowment of caring, a legacy
of tzedakah to their daughter.
"Maybe," says Ian, "that's
where my sense of justice
comes from."
But justice just doesn't hap-
pen overnight. Ian says the

"While everyone
was talking civil
rights, I was up
there getting
bottles thrown at
m&'

lingering aftermath of her
recording of "Society's Child"
"did a lot of [personal]
damage. It took me time to
straighten things out."
Some audience reaction had
been twisted, with customers
attending her performances
just to pelt her with garbage
and verbal abuse for recor-
ding such a controversial
song. "While everyone was
talking civil rights, I was up
there getting bottles thrown
at me," says Ian of her '60s
ordeal.
But she refused to bottle up
her feelings, to town down her
tuneful messages. "It never
occurred to me to back off,"
says Ian. "I was raised with
the ethic that what people
think of your decisions has no