Posted on 10/11/2024 9:03:31 AM PDT by Angelino97
Videogames and the internet gave those white boys something else to be interested in. Plus, rock was a response to the unprecedented situation of young people after WWII. They had their own money, they had their own subcultures. From the bomb to the pill to the electric guitar to mass affluence to surfing to car culture to television they were coming to terms with a wholly new world. Recent generations haven’t seen as much change or as much that’s new, and what is new — computers, cellphones, the internet — provides its own channels of communication that don’t go through electric music.
Gen Xer?
“We were the first band to vomit in the bar.
And find the distance to the stage too far”
Long live rock 1973 live
https://youtu.be/maD5k-vUI4o?si=DOCj3b5FJECGud8v
Rock is a form of music distinct from, but closely related to, the earlier doo-wop, rockabilly, and rock ‘n roll. It draws inspiration from the same genres of jazz, blues, gospel, country, and the folk music of the British Isles transplanted to the American backwoods. It first leaped on to the cultural scene with “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” in 1963 …Wow . . . rewrite history, why dontcha Alexander. There is no such thing as “rock” that is distinct from “rock & roll”, and it sure did not begin with a 1963 Bob Dylan album.
Yeah, that’s definitely analogous to Rock. Classical music is back to its roots as well.
ROCK MUSIC is certainly DEAD and BANDS have died along with it.
Guys like me formed rock and roll bands in high school in the 1960’s. We found out quickly it was a great way to attract adoring, pretty girls.
Today, young girls are being shunned by young guys who find them too crazy to deal with.
It is a sad ending for youth music and courtship.
In many ways I think that’s the future of music is anyway (bands in small venues, not international superstars beholden to the “system” and requiring technology to make music). It’s closer to the fans and far more honest, musically.
Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long?.
Finding My Voice: The lack of representation in classical music.
February 3rd. 1959
Then came the Hippie Clinton’s, and their DNC so called “music”
The point of those articles isn’t the DEI, it’s that they have such a hard time getting the orchestras to play anything by anybody that’s alive, or an audience to show up the 1 show a year when they do. Yes there are a more diverse set of people composing orchestral music now, nothing wrong with that. But if it isn’t for a movie nobody is going to hear it.
Any art form, including popular music, needs two ingredients to thrive and profit. Scarcity and taboo-breaking. Popular music was scarce when purchasing a record was required. The choice of what to buy was curated by radio program managers who set the playlist that exposed new artists to the public. Pop music was also about breaking cultural taboos in abstract or symbolic poetic forms that pushed the envelope but didn’t destroy it.
Both scarcity and taboo-breaking have been undermined by technology and culture, making pop music a commercial commodity rather than a force for change and disruption.
Finding art forms that are both scarce and taboo-breaking will require a new generation of artists liberated from the tyranny of consumer culture. I’m betting on YouTube content providers and podcasters to be at the vanguard of this edutainment revolution.
The Day it died: Feb. 3rd. 1959
Holly actually had a real marriage.
Hippie exploitation of women followed.
“ I’s so old that I remember when the left was anti-establishment.”
They and their ideology became the new establishment and they are worse than the old one. They also have no interest in the constitution
Donald Trump does have an interest in the constitution. Why the masses refuse to see that is beyond me
This be establishment are the leftists who started it. Which means brainwash the kids to love leftism- communism, atheism, dictatorship all the trappings
Anyone could have seen it coming
The old establishment was a pain in the ass with foreign wars. Viet Nam was a disgusting insult to this country and it was a turning point
This is part of that
This new establishment a leftist one can be best illustrated by Howard sterns emetic schmooze fest on air with Kamala. He is driven by some motivation that has nothing to do with the constitution in his pursuit of promoting a presidential candidate.
Rock and Roll is not political at its core. It is deeply rooted in the delta blues and jazz, the blue grass jams of Appalachia, and classical music all of who’s roots are from the cantor music of East Europe, from the people who escaped oppression for their new and beloved USA, the cotton fields of the delta the Mississippi delta, the British isles music of the Scot’s and Irish, blue grass and the classical music rhythms of Beethoven, Bach Schubert and the rest
It is the electrified amped up rendition of these old tunes and reproduced form combinations and inspirations of these
It is not dead any more that blue grass, jazz, Irish lilts, gospel hymns, cantor music and blue grass
It is alive and well in clubs
There are no more album shops and big concert venues but if I put on “At the Fillmore East” or go see my nephews at a club in the east village playing rock and roll jamming their interpretations I along with the audience are very inspired
Rock versus rock and roll someone would have to explain that to me
Big anthems like Bowie, Queen, the Who, Billy Joel ok maybe if that’s ‘rock’
Exactly right. There were so many bands in the 60's thru 80's that half of them you forgot about.
Pete was so hammered.
And now we have AI-generated music.
“Rage Against The Machine” now rages for the machine.
I host a weekly (Thursday PM) one-hour COUNTRY MUSIC radio show on a community college radio station. I identify myself only as THE COUNTRY DINOSAUR. I play Hank Williams Sr., Webb Pierce, Lefty Frizzell, Jack Greene, Hank Snow, Patsy Cline, The Sons of the Pioneers and many others of the golden age of country music.
I AM A VOLUNTEER.
I play BOTH kinds of music...Country AND Western.
Every show is archived on the Internet to hear for two weeks. You can listen to the most recent and previous show.
archive.ksvr.org (scroll down to The Country Dinosaur and click the “play” button)
The only good country music is the older stuff like the kind that Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton made. This new stuff is awful.
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