Every generation will add their two pennor'th to a tradition. In my youth it was re-assessing the do-wop songs of 10+ years earlier. George Lucas's American Graffiti is an example of film digging up a recently deceased popular culture, with surf music portrayed as the end of real rock and roll, as earlier directors made the steam locomotive's bell sound the death knell of the old west.

I may flinch at hearing 'the nineties' talked about as a genuine historical period but it is, and the problem is mine. So far as new traditions go they will form, like it or not. Each generation will assign meaning and value where they may.