To be fiercely into music, such as became the case during the indie/punk period that began in the US during the 1980s, is now a generational hallmark, rather something indigenous to contemporary youth culture. Music is enjoyed more as part of larger cultural and technological ensembles than on its own.
So, you get the song with the video game, etc, or the album is complementary to your phone or ipod, not the center of it, like the pictures or the movies you add to it too. or the actual hardware itself, which is its own fetish object, like albums once were, albeit more expensive.
Joel
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Mike Beggs<mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dennis
> Claxton<ddclaxton at earthlink.net> quoted Steve Jones:
>
>> I know. It bothers me. The parents and the kids go to the same concerts,
>> which is wrong
>
> 'Kids today' - at least the ones into music - are able to have a much
> broader knowledge of pop history, thanks to the digital availability.
> If the classics were all they wanted to hear (as with the bulk of
> classical audiences) it would be a bad thing, but as a healthy part of
> a balanced diet, I don't see what the problem is.
>
> Mike Beggs
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