This 2011 essay by @jdrever makes a similar point.
“the political implications of retromania are disconcerting… we are kept contented by access to a vast museum of musical memories that used to signify, among other things, rebellion and invention.”https://twitter.com/jdrever/status/1309961519594176512 …
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I appreciate all the suggestions of things to listen to sent in replies. I spent much of yesterday evening going through them and listening, and enjoyed many of them! My original tweet was off-the-cuff and unclear…
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It seems significant, though, that so many suggestions were for music that was recorded before the person suggesting it was born!
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A related, natural misinterpretation led to suggestions of obscure bands/artists/genres that may indeed be involving for connoisseurs… what I’m concerned with is the future of our culture and society at large, rather than whether serious music geeks have something to geek about
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David Chapman Retweeted Kerry
Evidence from replies has been split; this from
@kerry62189 makes the case I’m concerned about: kids aren’t excited about music any more.https://twitter.com/kerry62189/status/1309970816898080768 …David Chapman added,
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Could music just die? Analogy (h/t anonymous): poetry had a central role in culture a century ago in a way now unimaginable. A few geeks still read and write the stuff, but it has zero cultural significance. Maybe music in twenty years will be on a par with poetry.
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David Chapman Retweeted Andrew Breese
If music is now culturally irrelevant, it may not matter if something with a similar function has replaced it. Several replies suggested video games. I note that I used to tweet about music quite often, and stopped, and tweet occasionally about vidya…https://twitter.com/DoTheWeirdStuff/status/1310049154798739456 …
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Andrew Breese @DoTheWeirdStuffReplying to @DoTheWeirdStuff @MeaningnessSelf-expression *distinctively through music taste* has I think been falling due to 1) less-communal music listening (the Walkman revolution and way beyond) & 2) the huge rise of other more-socially-fertile identity-meaningful media (especially videogames & the Golden Age of TV).5 replies 1 retweet 6 likesShow this thread -
Broader concern is the progress studies
@rootsofprogress thesis, that we’re in a period of stagnation due to people having lost hope/understanding that a better future is possible. If teenagers have nothing to look forward to except more of the same, but gradually worse, …3 replies 1 retweet 14 likesShow this thread -
“No future” is a self-fulfilling foreboding. How will we regain the sense that we create the future together, as generations, cultures, and societies as well as individuals?
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Replies to this thread (so many! thank you) interestingly split between “of course music is still exciting, here are examples” and “yeah it’s over as a major cultural force.” I’m left without a clear opinion…
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I think this is an unfounded worry. I suspect musical self-expression is a consequence rather than cause of having a sense of a future. If there’s a problem, it lies deeper. I don’t think there is. The instincts have just been diverted to newer media.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/ …
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Replying to @vgr
This essay may be relevant to your exploration of temporality (gets good about halfway through)https://thequietus.com/articles/13004-mark-fisher-ghosts-of-my-life-extract …
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