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unto ourselves, became suspicious. There is more of a spirit of mentoring and monitoring youth activities since the 1970s. And after terrorism became a prominent everyday everyplace threat we are subject to the concept of a "sleeper cell." This is when you have a small group of people who have their own thing going who might harm society some day. Since we have to watch out for them, the aspect of small cliques having their own thing going is much harder to achieve. Popular music today is changing into a solo in the headphones type of participation.

The purpose of this article was to remember what music meant to us in an earlier time. It was a world within a world. It was a way to have a different thing going for a new life in the midst of pressures from the outside world. I think this example of what music can be is good to get back to. A person is more reliant on jhyself (him or her self), including the people jhe (he or she) can relate to, and not adjusted by a continual up to the instant comparison to the outside life. The habits, movements, and thoughts made possible through music provided a space in the busy world of adult routine. But technology has changed, and the possibility of cliques surrounding music for positive reasons has given way to more of a solo effort without time to enjoy this extra space.

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