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In Reply to: RE: The dumbing down of the U.S. continues... posted by jimbill on July 14, 2016 at 16:21:16
The entire media pop-culture has engulfed American society like a stage 4 cancer.....For a lot of people, the only music they know is hip-hop. And those who control the media want it this way..... A dumbed-down populace is a controllable one.
It started in the late 1960s. We once had the NY Philharmonic and Miles Davis on network television. Then, some time in the late 1960s, such programming went "poof"..... (This wasn't gradual, it was sudden.) And it has been a death spiral ever since.
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There you go again, Todd, with your grassy knoll theories. The trouble is, there is no evidence to support them. ;-)
The evidence is this hasn't taken place in Japan.....
It's almost a time warp..... Japan's media has not driven its culture into the ground..... The country has the best orchestras in the world now (like American orchestras in the 1950s and 1960), and an audience that is of all ages, not just the elderly.
Heck, there may be even more evidence in Mexico.... (Try to find an American example in what's in the link. Again, look at the audience.) We don't have our youth being exposed to unadulterated music anymore..... And I think it's downright heartbreaking.
The free market speaks and the free market says hip hop, (or whatever the majority of the local listeners want.
If revenues are flat, or if they fall, the program directors are gone.
Even within the classical music industry there's "dumbing down." Back in the brick and mortar era I managed a small classical music room in a college town. I ordered a lot of "obscure" stuff: VW 9th symphony, Respighi's "other" works, if you get my drift; manager tossed my list and replaced it with Beethoven's 5 and Orff's Carmina Burana* on Naxos no less. It's what sells," he said.
*immoral stuff!
"The free market speaks and the free market says hip hop, (or whatever the majority of the local listeners want."
It's the "pop culture" on this one..... Shaped by the mainstream media..... Hip hop is purely a "peer pressure" driven genre..... We don't have music for the sake of music anymore.
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