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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: A bit puzzling, I grant. More and more Americans are college educated. One would posted by tinear on September 22, 2014 at 08:57:54:
I don't think taste in music is directly related to academic status or being active in an arts field. I think it's very directly related to what you grow up with and just simply what you like as a kid and imprint on, and the input from parents. And then how you go your own way from teens on.
As an example, I grew up in a musical household where I heard mostly classical music and bits of big band era jazz. I started to like modern jazz and atonal classical music as a teen, which my father never liked, and later in life became crazy about opera, which my father hated.
My son's a designer and has a keen ear for music. He could tell good Chopin pianists from bad ones from the age of 6. But he never liked classical music. I took him to The Cunning Little Vixen in Prague and he clearly understood the music, but it doesn't interest him much. He listens to what the more musically fussy kids of his generation listen to - experimental hip-hop music with better lyrics, and a lot of world music - salsa, kola, reggae, and a lot of Latin music, some quite obscure. And a fair bit of retro music like original bluesmen, Steely Dan albums etc. He doesn't listen to any commercial pop music.
The point is that you can be discerning in your listening without including jazz or classical music. I don't know where world music comes into the picture - it wasn't mentioned in the original post. Must be a fair bit of blues and Latin music in the USA, though maybe not European, Asian and African music. There's a lot of this kind of music in the UK.
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