On Mon, August 30, 2010 3:15 am, Dave Phillips wrote: > Julien Claassen wrote: >> >> ... there always is the choice and it is not, that choices are hidden >> away in dark corners. You can look on youtube, in the stores, at the >> internet radio landscape, even at big collections of stations, >> including pop and/or poprock. You'll find loads of alternatives. I >> have the feeling - at least here in Germany - that among young peoples >> more and more turn, besides their interest in typical pop, to >> something of their own. Indi, oldies, 70s, folk... You name it, >> they'll like it and show it to others. I've seen that in several >> friends and friends' children. > > I agree with Julien. I teach 35 students per week, most of whom are > young people (well, younger than I am). They don't listen to MSM radio, > they don't watch television and they're not into MTV. They do almost all > their music-finding through friends, iTunes and other such stores, and > the social media sites. No-one under 30 brings in CDs any more. They > bring in iPods and flash drives. There are currently NO music stores > (CDs and other hard-format recordings) in this town of 45,000 souls. > > The kids bring in everything from the 60s to now. They bring in crap and > they bring in tunes that I end up using in my own shows (I recently > appropriated Dave Grohl's Everlong). I've been listening to pop music > since the early 1950s, and it seems to me that there has always been a > constant amount of shite on the airwaves. Of course there is, because > you can easily manufacture it. You can't easily manufacture the truly > great music, IMO it's gotta come from within the artists themselves. So > there's always been a varying amount of good stuff. > > Btw, there's a strong argument that the "teen craze" sort of pabulum > started with Disney and his ilk. Pop stars such as Annette Funicello and > other Mouseketeers were the Britneys of the day, and manufactured stars > such as Fabian soon took over the charts after the harder rock music > suffered from the effects of Buddy Holly's death. Disney and Colonel Tom > Parker determined the tastes of whole generations of listeners. They > substituted saleability for creativity, and the rest is what's known as > pop history. > This backs up my theory that we have been subjected to a form of abuse for a substantial period of time now that may actually result in a Pavlovian response to the compositional technique... -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
