I mean, hard times always produce better music, right?
Somebody back me up, here.
I thought the same thing a few weeks ago. It seems in times of prosperity the music blows, like the last five years.
I suppose that explains all the great blues produced during the depression.
Oh Lawdy, I’ve missed you, spoke!
All I can say, is I certainly hope (and pray) that music (and other forms of media) will get better. I really do. I miss going to a good show.
The 30s were certainly the heyday of the American popular song. The greatest composers were very active at the time, including Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Harry Warren, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen.
I’m skeptical that any current recession will create an improvement. MP3 file sharing will inevitably increase the crapola content as musicians too lousy to get recording contracts will find it simple to put the songs on the Internet.
An article in Canada’s Globe and Mail also backs you up.
Hey, they didn’t call it a “depression” for nothing!
Yeah, the Great Depression left us with a lot of great music, and not just the blues. We got great folk music from Woody Guthrie, et al., great popular songs, the explosion of country music and the birth of bluegrass.
The Carter recession gave us Punk and New Wave, the Bush recession gave us the Seattle sound, MTV was born during the Reagan recession, IIRC.
(Hey, there’s JavaMaven1, my music-appreciation doppelganger. How you been?)
Yeah, TitoBenito, the last five years have sucked out loud.
Where’s the angst, people, where’s the angst? Sunny optimism does not good music make.