On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Marshall, Marc wrote:
http://www.popmatters.com/column/154630-rock-is-the-new-jazz.-sorry-rock/
Just ran across this and it made me laugh as we were discussing jazz vs rock last night.
I think this is pretty accurate (not that I have a real hold of the present commercial world of music) and is pretty funny at times at well.
Hi Marc:
That fella’s piece amounts to, more or less, the ten-thousandth way of recasting (and/or rebutting) the ol’ cliche derived from Danny and the Juniors’ 1958 hit, "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay"! LOL
The direct aftermath of Kurt Cobain’s death marks in my mind the point at which "Rock/Rock and Roll"-as-such began to relinquish its longstanding majority hold on Worldwide Youth Culture, much as Elvis’ first appearance on ED SULLIVAN marks the start of its assumption of same.
38 years (1956-1994) atop The American Popular Culture Machine was/is quite a run, so let the "Poptimist"/Hip-Hop/AMERICAN IDOL/’Bro Country Quartet enjoy its (waning?) time at the supposed pinnacle while it lasts–assuming it wasn’t in actual fact supplanted by Video Games/The Internet/Smart Phones long ago–before the whole of our youth gives in to Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and then "Brain-Implanted Constant-Entertainment Feeds" (BICEF), or whatever digital horror awaits us just around the technological corner! (I should probably copyright that term/concept.)
Thanks for sharing, MM….
Tom
