"Commercial radio—a free alternative to buying records and sheet music during the Great Depression—took off dramatically during the Great Depression. By the 1940s, radios were a default presence in most American homes. And by the late 1940s television was growing out of radio, and through the 1950s the pair set holiday living rooms around the country aglow with musical performances. The rise of rock and roll and the establishment of youth culture, starting in the mid-‘50s and continuing apace through the ‘60s, put a halt to the uniform dominance of the sweet, adult pop that was the default mass music for the first half of the 20th century, however."
At the Atlantic, I briefly respond to xkcd’s Christmas-canon-as-boomer-nostalgia comic.
The lesson here: don’t jump to conclusions whenever a graph floats across your dashboard.
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One interesting thing abt this is that there exists a useful control group, i.e. Britain* a country which enjoyed
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The lesson here: don’t jump...conclusions whenever a graph floats across your dashboard.
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