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Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes The search for meaning in modern-day music: 1 of 7

There are several widespread attacks slung at the state of music today by people who are resentfully out of the loop. The most common is that it is superficial and lacks any cogent meaning or emotional truth. The second is that it's no longer as cohesive as it was back in the hey days of the sixties. The final attack is usually hazily aimed at the wealth of hipster, goths, and other banal stereotypes that have grown around this silt of music - as being both absurd and in poor taste. What strikes me as odd when people talk about modern music is their refusal to take historical context, and ...
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