12-10-2019, 22:49
This risks taking us off topic but I’ve become aware of late there’s a move to rewrite not only the history of popular music but movements such as the flower power hippie period. Part of this is I suspect a vain attempt to pretend creativity and drugs aren’t, or rather weren’t linked.
Even the Beatles were guilty of this one with their absurd claim Lucie in The Sky With Diamonds wasn’t a reference to LSD. And it’s not just the music’s history being re-written. The almost total silence in the art world about the influence of drugs upon art during this period has left us with only one common reference, ‘Psychedelic’. I asked a teenager recently what they thought psychedelic art was. The answer was .’Lots of bright colours’.
I have to confess, as a geriatric hippie myself, I find this movement to bury an important part of our history offensive in the extreme.
As to Rand and Prog Rock, she hated it preferring Rachmaninoff and other classical romantics.
The attention span of the young in primary school (Grade school in the US?) has teachers break lessons up with substitutes for advertisements as children today have such a diminished attention span. This process also involves a technique used in many video productions today. For instance, a documentary will break for an advert but when it returns a brief précis of what went before is given just in case the audience has forgotten where they were in the story. And to think in Mozart’s day a concert could run for up to six ours without a break. The audiences bladder control must have been astonishing.
Even the Beatles were guilty of this one with their absurd claim Lucie in The Sky With Diamonds wasn’t a reference to LSD. And it’s not just the music’s history being re-written. The almost total silence in the art world about the influence of drugs upon art during this period has left us with only one common reference, ‘Psychedelic’. I asked a teenager recently what they thought psychedelic art was. The answer was .’Lots of bright colours’.
I have to confess, as a geriatric hippie myself, I find this movement to bury an important part of our history offensive in the extreme.
As to Rand and Prog Rock, she hated it preferring Rachmaninoff and other classical romantics.
The attention span of the young in primary school (Grade school in the US?) has teachers break lessons up with substitutes for advertisements as children today have such a diminished attention span. This process also involves a technique used in many video productions today. For instance, a documentary will break for an advert but when it returns a brief précis of what went before is given just in case the audience has forgotten where they were in the story. And to think in Mozart’s day a concert could run for up to six ours without a break. The audiences bladder control must have been astonishing.
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