Thomas Bey William Bailey
2014 m. Gegužės 05 d., 23:06
Skaityta: 260 k.
Every twenty years or so, with the regularity of a yearly avian migratory pattern, a fascinating thing happens within the realm of popular musical culture. A musical genre thought to have gone extinct is "re-discovered" by a select group of cultural cognoscenti, who proceed to present an idealized vision of this original culture, and to suggest that its past holds the keys to the future of musical and extra-musical culture alike. Since the social upheavals of the 1960s, this pattern has held in the United States with a remarkable consistency: the 1970s brought us a 1950s rock 'n roll nostalgia courtesy of syndicated television shows like Happy Days, the 1980s saw a not insignificant revival of 1960s psychedelicism, the 'Seattle sound' of the 1990s hearkened back to the perceived warmth or organicism of '70s rock, and the 'electroclash' of the '00s fed off of 1980s synthesizer pop (the more obscure the better) for its topical and aesthetic minutae.