What a great article.
He makes some really great points, I especially liked the line,
""Music is a herald, for change is inscribed in noise faster than it
transforms society." That music has stopped changing, Mr. Reynold suggests,
reflects something gravely amiss in the wider culture."
there certainly is a lot amiss. But i will say there is more original music
than they give credit to. Electronica / Techno, New styles of rap and hiphop
are constantly coming and going. Now i must say its not necessarily good or
worthy to enter that 120gig iPod of yours at all, but it has been forging
its own way. You get certain amount of retreading in hip hop but for the
most part its taking things in a new direction even though its sampled.
The major focus of the article is Rock Pop and with Bob's comment i'll
throw country in the mix too. I love all the pre-1977 music in these
genre's. They seem to have stagnated. Could they have possibly run their
course? Blues music and jazz in the modern or 'post modern' age as they
refer to it in the article is just sad. While i don't give much chance, I do
ignore it and hope it just goes away. If those two extremely power forms of
music have gone with the Do-Do why not rock? I was listening to modern
country on the radio just this morning, bluegrass seems to be a highly
technically recorded version of what was around in the 50's and 60's.
I wonder if todays electronic holds up as poorly as 90's electronica, my
guess is most definitely.
Peter.
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