The rise and fall of musical genres

William_the_Bloody · 08-07-2015, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Jazz is still very much thriving, it's just something that you see in a more localized sense. Even still, we have jazz albums taking the internet by storm from time to time, so I don't think it's too unlikely for jazz to have another peak in the near future. And metal is most definitely not in a dip, I'd say it's at one of its best stages in its history right now.

I think that these days, the internet is preventing falls and to a lesser extent, rises, by keeping them more at a constant level because it connects niches and creates a more tight knit community surrounding the music. It's not so simple as a rise or fall anymore. You could say that they're in a decline because they don't tear up the charts, but with the way that the music world is today I don't think that's a healthy indication of the state of a genre.

This is a good point and critique of the thread, technology, particularly the internet has changed the state of music as people are no longer soley dependent upon big corporations and a few indie labels to feed them their music.

Nevertheless, popularity is still relatively defined by commercial sales & surveys, and jazz definitely doesn't dominate the music charts or sales anymore. That era is long gone, but it's still thriving as a niche genre.

Think of the British Empire, it once dominated the globe like jazz did in the 50's, but today the UK, while still a thriving G7 will never attain the historic dominance it once had.

It had it's peak and went into decline, interestingly both jazz & the UK seemed to have bottomed out around the late 70's.

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

For the most part i agree with this but you can still hear traces of disco in modern artist like Thundercat or even Of montreal. New wave is dead as a hell though which is a shame because i love that genre.

The last decent new wave band ive heard is the Lost sounds which remained together till 2007 or so..

Well there was a big new wave revival, if you consider indie rock bands like the Strokes & Interpol as new wave.

Also lately there has been a lot of new wave sounding bands dominating the pop charts.

(ie Goyte: Someone I use to know, Foster the People: Pumped up Kicks)

but your right new wave will never be as dominate as it was in the 80's, (we probably hit peak new wave in 83?) you should map that one out.