Does music define your generation; or does your generation define your music?

What I am trying to get at here, is that musical style and substance changes radically from generation to generation and year to year. For instance I really like the music of the mid to late '60's right through to the late '90's. Most of today's music sounds like CRAP to me: Saliva, Godsmack, any rap ghetto music, so called R%26amp;B, but lots of people do like that stuff.





So, has music defined your generation or has your generation defined your music?

Does music define your generation; or does your generation define your music?
music today is like all rap and hip-hop and the cool kids are always gansters so I guesse that music has difined my generation wich sucks cause I like classic rock!!!





thanks hope this helps
Reply:I definitely think your generation defined your music. There comes a point in your life where record label execs. don't really care if you like the music anymore because you're not that hot 18-25 demographic that has all of the disposable income.
Reply:Both are right.





It'll be a bit long to explain this.





Every Society has Culture right?


by influence of the last culture and based on the situation and condition of the surroundings to the people, the specific people of new generation create a new culture, and so on, and on.





The culture has 7 part or also called system, that is:


Art, Religion, Law, Language, Economic, Social, Technology.


(The Art include Music)





OK, I'll give you a simple example.


If since child your parents give you alot of sweet foods - probably because of the culture that your parents has, have a sweet food in it (fact. Javanese food are all sweet using black sugar), then you'll get used to sweet food right? this is when the culture effecting You.


Offcourse since this, if you taste a new food that wasn't sweet, you'll say that it's not good, but if it's sweet you'll say it's good


Then when you get older, the scientist found out that chilly are good for health, then when you found that out, you try to use as much as chilly in your food, that's create a new culture of food that's sweet and hot. this is when the people create new culture.


You child would have that new culture, and will create new culture based on your culture and by the situation and condition when they're older. and so on.





So wich define wich? they're defining eachother.


Not only music, but the whole art, and even the whole culture.





when you say that a melody are good, that's based on your experience music listening, and when you create a new kind of music, that's also by the influence of your music before that, and also by the situation and condition surrounds you that times.





Ofcourse that you can't accept the younger music then yours, since they were created by the generation after you.


The newer generation learn from your culture, while you learn from your parent's culture not from the new culture.


So it's naturally that you can't accept the new music while the youth can accept yours.





As if in the food example above, you'll like both sweet and hot food, while your parents like sweet food but not hot one.





p.s. remember, there's always a minority report that's cotrary to the theory.











Hope This help


Bless You
Reply:PEOPLE TRY TO PUT US DOWN!!*talkin bout my generation*


Nahh... you can like music from anytime anywhere. Technically, music defines your generation. The way one acts in such and such time relates to the music. Par Example-


In the 80's , people wore clothes and acted differently then people in the 70's because the type of musical tastes change. I dont like the bands now a days either. I go back-70's, 60's-thats my thing
Reply:I think I understand what you are trying to say, nowadays most music is ******** comercial, I like 70 80, guns roses, queen ac dc, classical rock... that was music.


So I think my stupid generation has defined stupid music, It would have been a nice music experience to born before.
Reply:I personally think music defines the generation. Because we, the "people" of the generation are the ones that make the music. It all depends on "our" [the people of the generation] thoughts of whats going on. Not all music has gone to waste though. Something to remember is that music depends on the person. It wasn't made to just please one certain type of person. But it also wasn't made to ignore those who don't like that type of music. Music is different in everyone. Times change is what, I guess, the point in this answer is.





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