Carl said:
> Which has a lot to do, I'd reckon, with the eventual coming of punk,
> as well as with the interest in country as some sort of purer heritage
> from the antediluvian age - I don't think it's just coincidence that
> alt-country adores pre-seventies country (Hank, Buck, Cash, Jones,
> etc.) and is squeamish about almost everything thereafter. There's a
> generational sense that any mainstream culture made in our lifetimes
> must be by nature corrupt, stained by original sin. That a band as big
> as the Beatles could be seen as great artists and countercultural
> heroes by broad consensus is a basically alien concept to everyone too
> young to have participated, methinks. [With the possible
> counter-example of Star Wars, but that's total escapism. Nobody claims
> Star Wars galvanized the youth of America, tho in fact it did cause a
> huge shake-up in HOllywood and thus in the culture at large.]
Alien to the cynical gen x'ers? I don't think that many growing up in the
sixties waved a cautionary flag to the ever-changing musical parade ripe
with social commentary. For many of the boom generation, there was complete
shock, sadness and a permeating sense of disbelief that "The American
Dream" as told to us by our parents as interpreted through the grand deceit
of politicians was NOT infact a natural progression. It signalled a wake-up
call from innocence and a pathway through which those who wished to could
express their attitudes and beliefs toward the chicken-in-every-pot
depression era and WWII ideals. Gen X cynicism is a hand-me-down albeit
more intensified and "what about me" attitude from the Baby Boom generation.
Tera
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> I'll shut up now ... carl w.
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