LizzieMaine
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Copeland? Pshaw. Ferde Grofe is where it's at, man.
Well, if the 60s does nothing for you, I imagine the tunes of the Golden Era must be VERY good.
:rofl: Uh, no. Tamborine = Hippie music. That was horrible. lol lol
Copeland? Pshaw. Ferde Grofe is where it's at, man.
Say that after you've watched the opening walk-around of the Hollywood Review of 1929.
Tell it to Lew Docksteader.
No love for Mr. Louis Alter?
and sparkly?
Is San Francisco still the hippie capital, or did they move elsewhere?
I just heard of a new dance craze that's sweeping Europe. Seems, the dancer swirl around in a sexual frenzy, and rub bodies together in the most explicit fashion imaginable. And, if that is not enough, women are now showing way to much skin while participating in this new dance. I am completely shocked beyond belief! We must stop this dance before it is to late, and people are doing it around the world! This is the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it? I am sure you all know the dance I am speaking of, The Vienna Waltz! /QUOTE]
I think you all missed my point above. This is what the old fogey critics in the late 18th century said about this form of young people dance. Now, it is considered a beautiful form of dance, very conservative. How does that old saying go? "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
There is little doubt that San Francisco has a variety of wonders that bring or attract people from around the World. We do also have some very well loved loungers that abide and reside in the Bay area....but....it is very true a major part of the population seems to have become what most people could describe as "strange bedfellows" to say the least. There is very little that could come from the news about San Francisco that could be shocking any more, not sure it it is true but you never know, as I have heard they want to have a flag all for themselves, to make it known about some "rights" movement, a flag that is lavender and pink with a main logo of a jock strap covered in sparkles...something that would make Truman Capote proud of. Do they have a statue of Richard Simmons dancing to the oldies outside the main city office building? lol!Is San Francisco still the hippie capital, or did they move elsewhere?
I don't think anyone has thrown out that sort of a criticism in this thread. My own distaste for sixties music is that it's *bad music* -- written on an elementary-school level, manufactured more by studio technique than by actual talent, and most of all, sounding like a trunk full of broken glass being pushed down six flights of stairs.
People can go ahead and dance the Batusi or whatever all they want. It's the music I can't stand. If that makes me an alterkacker, so be it.
I have thought about the "music" and even the "arts" connection to our life and history as humans. Perhaps each person has interactions with music in relationship to personal events that remind them of something connecting a passion or positive event in their personal life.
It is easy for some to love the masters in art works, and as such some would appreciate cubism, or abstract art while others would view it as being done by a monkey that was let loose with a squirtgun full of paint.
There is to the masses, some very wonderful and genius works done by the music industry in the 1960's. I would tend to think not all of it would be rendered to be great or fantastic, but to rule all of it out, as being unworthy just does not make sense. It is however, a personal choice for any one person to decide. In ways it may not be much different that a person's like or dislike to a type of food they would eat or not. In the end, to respect the individuals choice is important.
You make a good point here. I think a lot of the reason baby-boomer music is so fetishized in modern culture is simply because it's baby boomers' music -- they grew up with it, it's the music of their formative era, it's what they know. Which brings us back to the fact that one specific generation has an inordinate influence on modern culture, simply because of its sheer bulk.
Mn. There's a lot of the Sixties music I love, and some of the fashion I can appreciate, even if it's not for me. The problem I have with it, for the most part, is less the Sixties, and more the mindset of uncritical Sixties revivalism. I feel much the same about the Eighties, really. Maybe I'm a hypocrite - I look back to and keep alive elements of the forties and fifties that I love, knowing full well those are not times I'd want to live in, or of which I'd like to revive every aspect. Maybe my objection to eighties revivalism is the unconscious nature of the selectivity intrinsic to it... [huh]
I think we live in a time where the great mass of people assume something is "art" because experts tell them it's art.