Sixties and Oldies

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

John Burgess writes:
 
> I'll admit that I might come from a particularly nostagic strain of 
> Yankee, or that I lived in a retro-area, but I don't really think so.  
> "Popular music," taken to mean "faddish attraction to the new," could be 
> argued to have existed even back in the 17th Century, as songs and 
> composers clearly went into and out of favor.  Some never entirely went 
> away, though, and others seem to cylce back and forth in the popular ear. 

I agree with John here - the 'pop' phenomenon, intertextuality etc. 
are not new things. What has changed is ease of communication, and 
also an increasingly homogenous world culture.

hg
hag at iafrica.com