and the other rock is DEFINITELY dying
with new people like soulja boy (who i fckin hate with all my heart) are totally getting hella fans and whatnot
never really was into rock though....
'cept japanese rock
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It depend on what you mean by "dying". I think in a couple of years rock may become what jazz and classical music is today. An art form. People attend schools and analyze every inch of it. You don't really see that now. But I think in a generation of two we will have real professional rock schools. That might in some peoples eyes be the death of Rock'n roll.
I dont think it is possible for Rock to become any more of an establishment than it already is. There will surely be fluctuations in its popularity, as well as plummits. It will however never transcend impact it already holds in the music industry. Rock was solidified as a legitimate and lasting genre in the 70's. New styles of rock may be birthed. Just as new styles of all music is constantly being experiemented with. I believe there will be a completely new genre birthed from the inluences of rock and many other popular contemperary music genre's.
The only new peaks rock as a genre can ascend to is its status of popularity in the mainstream
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Yeh, Rock is studied. And yes, no you can't "learn" how to play rock or jazz in schools only. But still jazz schools are more common than rock schools. And still most jazz musicians attend musical schools before creating their own perspective of music. In Sweden for instance you have to be able to play jazz to attend the finer musical schools. Sucks to be a rock guitarist then. Luckily for me I adore jazz, but most people don't
In the U.S rock has found it's way in to the school world, but you have to admit that it's not as widely spread as jazz and classical music.
So even if rock as a school subject is becoming more usual, its not as common as jazz and classical music studies. No music, can be entirely erudite. But I daresay that jazz is more so than rock is.
Many people, in fact, all the ones I've seen usually have, to some degree, this base: "I remember when...", then trail off into a story of the music that laced their youth.
well, imso the music i listened to in my youth was a bite off of music from the last generation, but they still had something to add. when i listen to metal, for example, i cant tell what was released this year and what was released 20 years ago. maybe my old ancient crusty ears are missing out on significant nuances, but then again, maybe its all just carbon copy retro metal passed off as new and cutting edge.
i think the last bit of creativity in rock was bouncing around in kurt cobain's brain just before he blew it out.
:edit: there are exceptions, im not arguing an absolutist opinion. just that the exceptions can be counted on one hand...imso
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Rock is not dead. And it certainly didn't die with that hack Kurt Cobain.
I imagine he became famous the same way Steve Martin chose to take that lamp with him at the end of The Jerk. Some producer was stumbling around Seattle and just pointed at him and said "Oh, I NEED this..."
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