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Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?
NYT ^ | 5/23/2016 | Chuck Klosterman

Posted on 05/25/2016 7:20:38 AM PDT by Borges

Classifying anyone as the “most successful” at anything tends to reflect more on the source than the subject. So keep that in mind when I make the following statement: John Philip Sousa is the most successful American musician of all time.

Marching music is a maddeningly durable genre, recognizable to pretty much everyone who has lived in the United States for any period. It works as a sonic shorthand for any filmmaker hoping to evoke the late 19th century and serves as the auditory backdrop for national holidays, the circus and college football. It’s not “popular” music, but it’s entrenched within the popular experience. It will be no less fashionable tomorrow than it is today.

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To: Borges

What is a “Rock Star”?


21 posted on 05/25/2016 7:47:10 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: Borges

“Sousa and Scott Joplin are probably the two most enduring American composers of their time.”

Add Stephen Foster to that and I can agree. I think he was probably the most prolific and many of his >200 songs are recognized without anyone realizing their origin.

(Old Kentucky Home, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home, Oh Susanna, etc etc)


22 posted on 05/25/2016 7:47:23 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: LRoggy

In junior high all the trombone players were big Chicago fans, because of 25 or 6 to 4. Nobody had ever heard anyone play 16th notes on a trombone before.


23 posted on 05/25/2016 7:51:21 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: LRoggy

My kid sister was a 70’s rock girl. :-)

She was a HUGE Chicago fan. I remember going with her to one of their concerts (I think it was Madison Square Garden). They were excellent!

One of the 70’s bands I liked was Emerson Lake and Palmer. I went to one of their concerts (also at Madison Square Garden). They did “Pictures at an Exhibition”. I was blown away!


24 posted on 05/25/2016 7:52:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: TexasTransplant

Keith Richards? The historians of the future will just knock on his door and ask him questions. That man will never die. Too pickled!


25 posted on 05/25/2016 7:53:28 AM PDT by Snark
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To: LRoggy
I rediscovered Pet Sounds a few years ago. Brian Wilson was a genius. It's a shame he was a casualty.
26 posted on 05/25/2016 7:53:58 AM PDT by zek157
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To: Borges

The Beatles.


27 posted on 05/25/2016 7:54:19 AM PDT by heights
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To: rhoda_penmark

Neal Peart. Arguably, the best drummer out there.


28 posted on 05/25/2016 7:55:16 AM PDT by Snark
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To: Borges

Alice Cooper.


29 posted on 05/25/2016 7:56:01 AM PDT by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Borges

He just turned 75 yesterday, Dylan.


30 posted on 05/25/2016 7:56:24 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Borges

Rock & Roll is already over.None of the “Music” will be remembered for itself. All that will be remembered is an act in an historical sense, and that will be the Beatles.


31 posted on 05/25/2016 7:57:23 AM PDT by heights
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To: LRoggy
'70s and "sameness"?

Disco.

A lot of groups from that era look good by comparison, whether or not they actually were.

32 posted on 05/25/2016 7:58:31 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Biggirl

Want some fun. Get the Music to ‘Hello young Lovers’, and the lyrics to, ‘The times the are a changing”. Now sing the lyrics to the melody. Notice anything?


33 posted on 05/25/2016 7:59:44 AM PDT by heights
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To: Borges

Elvis Elvis Elvis. But then I repeat myself.


34 posted on 05/25/2016 7:59:54 AM PDT by SkyDancer
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To: ThomasThomas

“What is a “Rock Star”?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E


35 posted on 05/25/2016 8:00:01 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Borges; KC_Lion; GraceG

36 posted on 05/25/2016 8:00:25 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: BenLurkin

Elvis.


37 posted on 05/25/2016 8:00:37 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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To: Borges
Elvis - Buddy Holly - John Lennon - Dave Clark - Ray Charles

Ray Charles-What'd i say

38 posted on 05/25/2016 8:00:53 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: caver

Elvis “maddeningly durable” Presley


39 posted on 05/25/2016 8:03:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Snark

My humerous, esoteric question related only to the many deceased Spinal Tap drummers. Not real drummers.


40 posted on 05/25/2016 8:04:32 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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