Just about all of the musical changes Mountain Thyme mentioned were economic changes as well as aesthetic ones. so that one group, formerly the ingroup (but then who became the outgroup,) cold capture or re-capture their heady previous position---and maybe support their accustomed lifestyle.

When you care strongly for an academic discipline that has bocome "pop" (popular), you want to educate those that "don't know" with the little you're pretty damn certain you know a bit about. Sure, it's generational differences here, but that's not the whole story. Saying that it's generational means that, once again, we have one generation choosing to ignore another. So what else is new? It always seems easier (at first) to program the VCR without reading the directions about how to set the clock. Personally, I figure I'll keep on flashin twelve midnight. Someone's bound to notice and then go back to basics* and do it "right". **SMILEY NURD**

When Beethoven symphonies drop in people's critical estimations, the uspurge in popularity of, say, Mantovanni will get letters sent to the editor about what a travesty it is to negate Beethoven. It's just human nature rearing it's ugly head again. Once again, we can/will put a condom on it---until someone turns us on again at another time in another thread when we're too hot to fumble with one o' those things and, I shoot from the lip again.

Until that happens, I'll practice safe semantics. It's dental dams for me. (I know, good folks, once again it's enough to make one anti-semantic.) ;-)

*--"basic" = "roots"

All that's happening here at Mudcat is a bunch of decent but opinionated people with too much time on their hands are writing "letters to the editor" where the editor himelf is disinclined to edit. As an old song said (not a folksong), "I like it like that!"
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