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Is it just me or has this been a pretty (culturally)****ty decade? (pg. 4)
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| Project-K |
| Wasn't all that mostly in the late 90s though? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
Wasn't all that mostly in the late 90s though? |
I don't think so. Internet use was common, but extensive use was mostly limited to high income groups, and broadband was far less common. Friendster, the first big social networking site, wasn't opened until 2002. LiveJournal started in early 1999, but wasn't all that big until the next decade. Wikipedia, another centerpiece of the communications revolution, was founded in 2000, and YouTube came out in 2005.
Certainly business had already seen a lot of changes by the late '90s, though, with the rise of music sharing and online stores like Amazon. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
Wasn't all that mostly in the late 90s though? |
No decade culturally begins really in the first year. Either it begins a bit earlier or a bit later.
And you can definitely recognise a tune from the 00's. Because I'm still stuck in the 90's, I often hear a tune and wonder what the hell is wrong with it :p |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
since when was the us a cultural center though? unless by culture you mean pop/trash culture? |
[Huge generalizations follow]
The influence of the U.S. is by far the most significant reason that pop culture rather than "high culture" now dominates the industrialized world. European art went in the direction of academicism with things like atonal music and the "authentic performance" movement while America went in the direction of mass production of popular culture, best represented by Hollywood and the massive American "music industry." I think it's obvious which of the two tendencies won out in the end, although certainly the U.S. always had a small segment of its population that despised pop culture and tried to imitate Europe.
:toothless |
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| nchs09 |
| We had gaucho pants... and ... and.. deadmause? |
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| Lira |
Is Deadmause an Inca god, Nachos? :p
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
The influence of the U.S. is by far the most significant reason that pop culture rather than "high culture" now dominates the industrialized world. European art went in the direction of academicism with things like atonal music and the "authentic performance" movement while America went in the direction of mass production of popular culture, best represented by Hollywood and the massive American "music industry." I think it's obvious which of the two tendencies won out in the end, although certainly the U.S. always had a small segment of its population that despised pop culture and tried to imitate Europe. |
Has classical music ever been more popular than folk music among the working classes in Europe, though? |
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| Neon Sky |
We had this pile of crap
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Has classical music ever been more popular than folk music among the working classes in Europe, though? |
No, with the possible exception of certain periods and places when opera and virtuoso pianists were very popular. It was popular among the ascending middle classes, though. For a long time it was more popular than it is now, and it certainly received more funding than any other kind of music. There was some overlap between forms, too, as classical composers would often use folk tunes as a starting point for a composition. But that stopped in the twentieth century when snobbish academics started to take over and turned classical events into the stuffy, "serious" affairs, unfortunately misleading almost everybody into believing that classical music had always been the domain of snooty rich folks and classical concerts had always been the sober, mirthless events that people attend today, when in fact audiences used to stand up on their chairs, dance in the aisles, clap during the music, and do other things that today's "serious" afficionados would disapprove of.
[/my usual "state of classical music" rant]
Also, folk music does not = pop music. Different things. |
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| bluE_Neon |
| quote: | Originally posted by mezzir
seriously, like 1 in 5 girls on the UMass campus is wearing this exact combination at any given point in time
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More like 1 in 5 of every girl in Canada has the worst taste in fashion mind those Skechers shoes.
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
People talk more sloppy now, use more abbreviations than actually saying the entire word, so many fashion tweaks here and there happened.
People are going to remember this decade as the decade that had the Y2K scares and the people still kookoo after 12:00am 2000, 9/11 happened, execution of Saddam Hussein, now we have the Mumbai attacks. Keffiyehs, uggs and mini skirts, huge belts over shirts, dresses, sweaters. Crappy rap music, Obama, no more Bush, Youtube, Ressision, MTV stops playing music, Kanye's outbursts.
See..stuff happened. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Frenchie
Technology boosts, gas and oil shenanigans, high speed internet, SARS, some of the worst natural disasters have happened, rise and fall of the dollar, global warming peeks, Wikipedia, Janet Jackson's titty incident at the Super Bowl, writers strike. Don't tell me no one was deeply affected by that:p
It really does go on. |
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You forgot fat-ass females wearing tight clothing :haha: |
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| Teezdalien |
| quote: | Originally posted by Neon Sky
We had this pile of crap
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Man I crack up everytime I see someone wearing those.
00's is the decade of douchebags!:D |
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| RapidFire |
| imo its been a decade of over-exposure and media excess. reality tv, celebrity bull, all that. |
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| Teezdalien |
| You're in top form with these posts ********.:p |
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