I read with interest Prof. Blanchard's riposte to my ruminations on music and the soul. A brief response
Indeed it is possible for the culture to be debased and to have no common culture. If we stick to music, it may be musical tastes are widely fragmented and that most of those tastes are debased. Thus within that fragmentation there is something in common: a love of vulgar music.
Prof. Blanchard is probably correct that there was a day when the tastes of parents and children were wildly divergent, although I contend this was an extremely limited period, perhaps running very roughly from 1960-1980. This divergence existed because adult culture still survived while the youth culture was on the rise. Perhaps parents and children of today have reached an armistance, an armistance built on the low ground of music of various eras and genres that has the commonality of being music appropriate for adolescents.
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