03-19-2021, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2021, 02:41 PM by Eric the Green.)
(03-19-2021, 11:20 AM)David Horn Wrote:(03-19-2021, 05:39 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(03-14-2021, 12:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I would call nomads "experimenters with forms," which is how S&H describe them. Every young generation these days tends to have its own cultural rebels and experimenters in their own style. The nomad counter-culture was different from that of the prophets and silents, and no more rebellious than the others. Maybe the civics are least prone to this cultural counter-trend, but they kick up their heels too. The young GIs were big jazz buffs and their dancing was spectacular, for example. The Millennials seem open to everything that has gone before, depending on the millennial individual. Many of them, however, seem content with a superficial and bland popular culture, and by the 1950s, at least, the same was true of many GIs and Silents.
Prophets experiment with new moralities and spiritualities.
Nomads with new styles of music, dress and entertainment.
Civics with new form of social organization.
The only archetype that doesn't experiment is the Artist?
H-m-m. You have applied to the Nomads what is inherent to the Artists, though certainly not all of them. The last cycle, the Beat movement came directly from the Silent Generation, and the Hippies derived directly from the Beats. Dig up a copy of Tom Wolf's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as an interesting narrative on the subject.
Certainly. When the Artists are at their best, their experiments with styles of music are so far superior and more innovative than the raucous and reckless experiments which the nomads do, there's no comparison. As much as I admire the courage and energy which the Xers and other nomads have to do their risky and X-treme adventures. And I hasten to add, the innovators in jazz were civics and artists and perhaps some late wave Lost nomads.
It was the late-wave artists and artist-prophet cuspers who made the musical experiments in rock and pop that stand as the best. As in this most-notable example by Lennon and McCartney. And note the comments of those who appreciate this.
10 facts about this track: https://youtu.be/rsNNU_9-Ez4
The tropical connection made by these two videos to this song is something I would not normally think of, but interesting.
This is my note I decided to post on this "10 Facts" video linked above, referring to another musical innovator of the same age as The Beatles:
David Parsons took up from what John Lennon wanted to do on Tomorrow Never Knows, re. monks singing and chanting. Parsons' music is influenced by The Beatles, and he became one of the greatest artists in the new age/ambient realm. On this, perhaps his greatest track, Parsons traveled to the town where the Beatles met the Maharishi, and captured the whole atmosphere and depth of the traditional and the modern spirit of the place and its spirituality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR8E9N2D8cY
Another video about the most innovative track ever produced: