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Daniele Spadavecchia View Drop Down
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Points: 33 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 20:58
I would love to find that prog rock is intergenerational. But is it?

It may well end up in music history books one day as an interesting artistic expression that was born out a specific cultural context. This way it will be analyzed, but will the next generations feel it?
In general, we can feel any music that has an emotional an aesthetic content able to move us inside.
Some music is perceived by many generations as it has more universal qualities that go deep inside its listeners.

Being like children in the sense that we can let ourselves go and let the music move us is a great idea in order to just feel it as opposed to overanalyze it.

As a testimony, my generation wasn't as keen on Prog Rock as my parents'. I was born in 1970 and I totally loved as it was my bread and butter, but as I grew up, with the 80's came a lot of Pop and glamorization of music.
Basically a lot of interest switched from the emotion that would create music to the appearance of such music. Appearance that was not limited only to the look of musicians, in fact, it involved also the musical content.
The musical world became more separated and categorized: new wave, punk, rock, disco, heavy metal, fusion, new age, etc. So were the listeners... it was the defeat of 60's and 70's culture, killed by the over emphasis on profit with the marketers and the lack of interest for a deeper culture in the masses of consumers.

It is simple: something very powerful and revolutionary was started and partly influenced the world culturally for the years to come, but in general once the initial moment happened, people went back to their numbness as usual.

It was an awakening... does it still have the same effect today on new listener of Twitter and Facebook age? What do we need today to awaken given the social and cultural conditions? Are there any musical styles or new prog artists as awakening today?
Forget the form and feel the deepest content? Does it make you feel alive and empowered? What music makes you feel empowered, intelligent, free, connected to erudite and folkloric culture, to past and future, but totally in the present?


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Points: 18058 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2015 at 06:19
Originally posted by Daniele Spadavecchia Daniele Spadavecchia wrote:

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It may well end up in music history books one day as an interesting artistic expression that was born out a specific cultural context. This way it will be analyzed, but will the next generations feel it?
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Yes it will, the same way it has for hundreds of years.

It is an universal language, and not that strange to anyone. Only the commercialization of isolates people more than it helps bring it to a different culture. But feel it, it can! And we all will!
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2015 at 06:34
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

It's an unkind thing to say, but I wonder sometimes if people are just getting old and weary in here.  Not much fun and games in the forum, most of the 'friendly banter' is gone and arguments seem to quickly spiral out of control.  Seen it too many times in other forums/groups to be surprised, though.

I dunno, when I returned to here in I think 2013/2014 after a break lasting several years? It seems like a lot of the more "fanboyish" posters here, for lack of a better word, had left around 2011 or so in particular. Then again, so had many regulars I missed.

This forum does have a very different culture than most other music discussion boards I've seen, though: I actually find it calmer and more mature than average for the most part, which is something I chalk up to the posters being on average older than usual for a message board devoted to music; however, when a major flamewar or strife erupts it's not just over something that strikes me as relatively trivial but it also ends up having longer lasting effects than elsewhere with moderators resigning and regular posters leaving. Many of the conflicts I'm surprised run that deep when they finally get up to the surface.
"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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