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Originally Posted by (Automatic Nate,) how are you defining "medium" here? I take the medium to be one of the things that has changed little since people began selling recorded music, but I consider commercial recorded music itself to be the medium.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
medium is the method of delivery... cd, radio, cassettes, 8-track, live bands
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Originally Posted by (Automatic Nate,) I'm not sure on this. Could you comment a bit on the sampled lines from above and point to analogues in the music of other twenty-year cycles? Perhaps this twenty-year cycle does happen as you say, but I think notable changes have occurred in the ethical content of the music itself.
The idea behind the twenty-year cycle theory (the one to which Plato is so often drafted) seems to be that what was taboo twenty years ago is mainstream today. Does this hold for the slip into misogyny and tribalism that is evident in contemporary music? Should we rest assured that makin' the bitch puke will be perfectly acceptable by 2024?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
the ethical content has been the same since history began... degrading women, picking fights, warring nations, racism, sexism... just read some homer or sophocles or any greek tragedy really... homosexual sex was taboo 20 years ago... but it is making a comeback... and it was perfectly normal in plato's day and in 40 years it will be back in the closet...