Hi all,
Brigid makes an interesting point:"> thank you for pointing out that "modernism" is
a term
> that does not apply to the generations beyond really
> around the 1920's to the mid sixties. we now live in
> the postmodernist era, in fact."
Here's where I get all academic: most cultural historians date the true beginning
of the 20th Century as 1919 and the mass appeal and availability of phonographs,
radio, telephones, cinema ... also cultural movements such as Cubism, Dadaism,
Modernist literature by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, hot jazz and so on.
The term 'Mid-Century Modernism' covers the period from the 20s thru the mid/late 60s.
It's debatable whether we're still in the Post Modernist era or onto something that
hasn't been defined and named yet. Personally, I refer to anything current as
'Contemporary' with the intentional capital C.
Someone asked what anyone is listening to. Right now I am listening to heaps of
50s/60s hard bop ... Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Charles Mingus. Very
excellent groovin', funky jazz.
~~Paul~~
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