Re: [microsound] retro-isms

[Ian Guthrie Yeager <iyeager@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah well, sometimes the line between sociological fascination and genuine
musical interest becomes a little...fuzzy.


np - Toto "Africa"

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, richard chartier wrote:

> >
> >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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