Art, and others, "Fight the good fight with all your might..."

I know what you mean, but maybe it was ever thus. Nonetheless, I plan to go out of here (and hear, pun intended) kicking and screaming and satisfied that the kids will clue in eventually; or not, at their peril. By some freak of nature, even though I went through a rebelious period in my early adulthood, I never had any disrespect or disregard for the music of my parents and other elders. I never liked schmaltz, but church music and classical I loved, right alongside of the Stones and Led Zeppelin. I guess I owe my folks that. But I never saw music as a function of an age, era, or a generation. It was never my parent's music to me, music was and is timeless. This is one place where we are failing the next generation, the classification of music by age, and I think it's worse than classification by genre. It is academic that music has a date, but it doesn't need to be confined by or to that date. The current crop of rock-folk (as opposed to folk-rock) bands like the Paperboys, Slainte Mhath et al are doing a fine job of crossing eras and genres but they are not mainstream. Neither are the scores of fine singer/songwriter types out there mainstream. And maybe too many among don't want to share our little musical world with too many others. Be that as it may, I too get tired of swimming upstream, so I rest sometimes.

My partial solution would be ("If I were King...") arts programs in all grades of public education including music appreciation, heritage and cultures of the world, with a focus on arts (as a contrast to war worship), and more funding for the same.

I hope this doesn't sound too left-wing for people because I don't intend or consider it to be a political issue, and I've gone on too long about it.

Peace, Mooh.