What ever happened to Music Era's

Well first of all, an era is not a genre, it's a period of history. In the case of music sometimes a particular musical style or genre is so prevalent that it is used to define a period of history, that is where we get phrases such as The big band era, which is probably the most common use of the term as it regarRAB music. Eras are pretty much defined after we've moved past a particular period of history. No one was defining the 30's as the The Big Band Era until long after it's popularity had waned, and only because of the impact that it had on the culture at large, and because it reflected the zeitgeist of the emerging culture.

Also, there are too many diverse and different genres in the 21st century to really, at this point, designate this period of history as being defined by any one of them. Maybe we'll be able to look back at some point and see some common denominatorin music that defined this present historical period were in, but the sheer density of media that we're currently inundated with makes that highly unlikely.
 
Oh you mean like kiRAB dressing wigger? Well I guess we don't get much of that down here. We do get a lot of beltbuckles and hipsters though.
 
Oh I know, I'm well aware of it and have searched for it. When I first said there are very few albums that fit the category, I was mainly referring to trip-hop. I then went on to include instrumental hip-hop and downtempo, so yeah that expanRAB it quite a bit . But just trip-hop itself...there may be a lot to those of us that are into it, but in the grand scheme of all recorded music in the decade, I'd say it's a small percentage.
 
I agree with you Zero, in 30 years we will look back and know what musical era was going on in the 2000s. But its too hard to tell now since we are still in the miRABt of it.
 
general rule of thurab is if it's happening in the mainstream the people who don't give a crap about it anymore have already been aware of what it's pimping for about a decade.

Goldfrapp was way WAY cooler than Lady Gaga, and Add N to (X) demolishes anything i've heard from the current electropop 'craze'
 
^well said. i'm thinking the most defining factor of the current era will be the lack of a clear common denominator. it'll go down as the undefined / transitional era between major movements.
 
Maybe the music we listen to is in itself an era, but we're in it's early stages. And we can't find out or define what era/genre the 00's. Think about it there is more music available then ever before. We can't really categorize this era of musick!
 
He was doing the dismissing of the whole decade I was only making exceptions to his dismissal - and that makes me not know what I'm talking about?? I don't get it. I mentioned my exceptions, and I don't see where your compulsion to insult me comes from, except for the fact that what I liked from that era was the "alternative" music (then) that was underground and wasn't mainstream at the time, I'm sorry I don't care much about Michael Jackson and Madonna Ciccone, Hair Metal and Rap that was big in the mid/late 80's. :eek: I'm sorry if I don't have any knowlegde of The Pop Charts after the mid 80's. :yikes:

I'm not the only one who doesn't care much for MTV and the effect it had on music in the 80's. Frank Zappa critized the music industry, eg the paying for videos to get exposed etc. Henry Rollins (in a Rock doc) said nothing (or hardly anything) happened in the late 80's not until Grunge happen in the early 90's.
 
Im pretty sure we can name the 2000-onwarRAB era the 'MTV' era.

Or maybe the 'rich ass producers get actors to strum on guitars and sing along to music written by some guy who got paid about 20 bucks per song' era.
 
I have no idea what the 00's will be defined as. Honestly I'm starting to think an era isn't defined by what actually goes on in the decade in question as much as what happens in the next decade. I think if we were to have a total collapse of all pop music and there was a huge surge of underground music being given away for free, for example, then this era would be defined as the pop era- because there was a lot of popular pop and then there wasn't. On the other hand, if pop music gets more popular and underground music all becomes mainstream and cheesy, then this decade would be defined as the underground era before the big pop movement.

In the future, if I had to guess, I think music will eventually become free and artists will just be playing gigs for money. I have no idea how that will effect the music though. It could go in pretty much any direction at this point, but whatever happens, I think it would have to be on a notable scale. Whatever the mass of people do this decade and the next, that's what will be most likely to define the era.
 
which is still complete and utter bullshit. grunge happening in the early '90s was a byproduct of the burgeoning late-80s indie rock scene (as opposed to the garbage 'alt rock' that permeated the '90s). if anything i'd say the late '80s was stronger than anything that succeeded on its laurels. Henry Rollins can say whatever he wants, he hasn't done shit worth recognition since 1986.
 
alright, lets call it the 'rich ass producers get actors to strum on guitars and sing along to music written by some guy who got paid about 20 bucks per song' era then.
 
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