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Originally posted by not_so_new
Since then we have seen funk, disco, heavy metal, pop, boy bands, girl bands, soul, easy listening, reggae, R&B, death metal, techno, grunge, new wave, cool jazz and on and on. The question is, what can possibly be NEW after all of this?? |
You didn't work jazz into that near enough. That is the roots of american music. If its got a drum kit in it, it probably has roots to jazz. Even metal and techno (which is just electronic disco).
Now, a problem is that people today are copying contemporary artists, rather than going back in time to sinatra, benny goodman, charlie parker, buddy rich, louis armstrong, king joe oliver, gene krupa, duke ellington, don redman, charlie christian, glenn miller, and even john philip sousa. That is just a handful of names i could think of off the top of my head that have been lost to current generations of musicians (and engineers). Kids these days are just copying what they hear (and see) on the radio and tv, so it isn't really their fault they all sound and look about the same.
But, as the analog users know, what do you get when you copy a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an original? Is there any transfer in there where it miraculously gets better? Generation loss, generation gap, its all about the same thing. And yet music has the ability to cross both the generational boundary and move forward through time without losing the impact it once truly had. The only thing lost will be what was never truly there in the first place. And what is never passed on at all.