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Here’s a couple of contrasting opinions for you;

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”   Bill Cosby.

“Music is what unifies” Seu-ma-tsen, Chinese philosopher.

I guess it comes down to the question my good friend Fritz Kundler has posed; Do you wear your music or listen to it?   Does this song make me look fat? 

Without a doubt, many people wear their music which is a function, as Mr. Cosby has pointed out, of creating an identity that is sparate from the previous generation. This has gone on, no doubt, since before Rome and, rather than being a highly original identity, it is a tenuous one, blown about by fashion and dictated by, as Fritz points out, men in suits.

It was the ultimate irony of the sixties and every decade that followed that all the young hipsters, drop outs and rebels were generating huge amounts of income for those folks over thirty that they professed not to trust.

It’s not just the younger generation that wears their music, of course. Many folks choose their music out of a demographical sort of identification process, which has been a great stimulation to the economy in times past.

Musical styles and genres actually bear more similarities to each other than differences. This stands to reason since, out of the seven different possible chords in a given key, three are considered ‘primary,’ and are in constant use across the board, much like the primary colors in painting.

If you listen to music, rather than just wear it, and begin to find similarities in many different genres, you may come to the same conclusion as Louis Armstrong;

“There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind.”

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