Lisa Bornstein & baby boomers
I have 2 daughters in their 20s, so have been open to good music of all kinds, and they have embraced the music of my generation the same way I embraced the swing and bebop of my parents’ youth. But in the 60s there were about 7 genres of popular music to get into, and now there are about 700, in other words, something for everyone! I despise hiphop but it’s not very hard to ignore. The punk movement of the late 70s and early 80s was the last great “sound,” which is still being carried on by new bands, as much as the neo-psychedelic or neo-folk groups of today. And “Rolling Stone” magazine began in 1967 so is obviously skewed toward the “boomers,” but there are dozens of other music magazines on the stands, many probably compiling “greatest heavy metal albums", “greatest alt-country songs", “greatest emo bands", etc.
TV? It’s gotten neither better nor worse since I was a kid. I don’t watch series like I used to, but the ones I like, I like just as much.
Movies? The 70s did seem to be a kind of cinematic renaissance, but just like all of these pop culture art forms, there have been truly great artists and masterpieces in every decade of the 20th century, and art lovers of all ages have an immense treasure to mine if they so desire. Generational differences are much more negligible than they used to be, so you can stop trying to perpetrate the gap. We’ll die off soon enough, as will your generation, but the art we leave behind, as well as our commitment to peace, love, and understanding (still nothing funny about them!) will live on.
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