A - I don’t care about dancing.
B - you can dance to jazz just fine if you have the ear to understand it, most of the big dance troupes that come through town dance to jazz.
Actually I know what the 60s music was to my mother. It’s her record collection that got me started down this path because I didn’t like the “modern” music of the late 70s (really I didn’t like what was on the radio, I’ve discovered lots of great late 70s music since then), and we’d discuss it. And then I explored further. I have a complete set of Kinks albums, and The Stones, plenty of Motown, Buddy Holly. My grandfather worked for the Chess brothers so family history drove me to explore that (amazing) catalog. I get it. I just have open eyes and I’m willing to explore beyond the easy to find, which is why I know there was a lot of real crap then, just like now.
Actually the reason they play that stuff on PBS when they’re begging for money is because of YOU listen to it. You’re their target demographic so they’re trying to make you happy. If I was their target demographic they’d be playing Nick Cave, but I don’t watch PBS, never will.
Nick CAVE???? WTF is Nick Cave?