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« on: June 27, 2014, 08:36:36 PM » |
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I read an article a few months ago that posited that American popular culture more or less hasn't gone anywhere since the early '90s - everything that has come since then has been derivative repackaging of earlier artistic innovations.
It suggested that the Silent Generation may be the last generation to "not get" the culture and vernacular that emerged after they left young adulthood. Compare the archetypal '60s/'70s family where the Archie Bunker-esque father yells at the TV and can't understand why his kids dress like danged hippies and listen to weird music to the more common scenario of modern families where mom and her daughter share each others' clothes all the time and a parent will hear a Top 40 hit on the radio and remark that it sounds quite similar to a song that was popular when they were young.
The cultural awareness gap between someone born in 1995 and 1975 is marginal. The gap between someone born in 1955 and 1935 is a veritable chasm.
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