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Re: [microsound] retro-isms
Yeah, it's weird, I'm 28 and I've noticed that people who are only like 3
or 4 years younger seem to be into this 80's trash pop culture thing while
the friends I have in the same age group as me tend to be much less into
that stuff. Personally, I like to think of the 80's and 80's related
things as little as possible. I mean I find hair metal as interesting as
the next guy, but I won't start wearing Dokken T-shirts to show just how
sarcastic I can be.
ok here is my blabbering... i am sick right now so bare with me...
the most endeared to a period of music for its "retro-ness"
especially with a fervor do tend to be those who found out about it a
little too late, just having missed it. for example people in their
early to mid twenties that are not sentimentalizing as might someone
who experienced it as it exploded the first time... so its a
different perception. less about memeory more about collective
symbols that make up an era..
for example...think about this
saddleshoes/poodle skirts for girls are associated with the 1950s in
the US. but in fact (when chatting with my mother one day, she said)
saddlesshoes were actually popular in the 40s and poddle skirts were
in for one fall season in the late 50s... so here is a decade that
often gets denoted by something that really had little to do with it.
BUT....
i must say at the same time this coming from someone who just turned
30. (and who always wished he was born 3-4 years earlier) and who
does a periodic night called "proto:synthesis77-83" ... some very
important things were happening past the funny hair and parachute
pants/new romantics that most remember
eeek.
richard
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