The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good. Now it barely qualifies as music.
We went from Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton and James Brown and Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to ... at best, some pop singer with a decent voice and a lot of autotune, but mostly garbage rap with repetitive "sprinkler" beats that isn't even interesting rhythmically.
Hell, even early hip hop wasn't completely terrible.
Note: modern mainstream white musicians aren't much better.
Is any music produced today, or any building built today, or book written, something that will still be loved in 200 years, like Mozart's 40th Symphony, St. Paul's or Ivanhoe?
It seems that modernity is incapable of producing anything good. And obviously, I know that only the good stuff from 200 years ago survived, but somehow, I don't see the Sydney Opera House being loved 200 years from now, or anything really.
I think some jazz is going to be loved for a long time, mostly from around 1955-1965, give or take a few years. Some interesting stuff came out of that time and there is a lot of classical and baroque influence on it. A few Disney themes were turned in to jazz standards around then, too. "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Alice in Wonderland" for example. I think those movies will be loved and remembered and possibly carry the music with them.
The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good. Now it barely qualifies as music.
We went from Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton and James Brown and Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to ... at best, some pop singer with a decent voice and a lot of autotune, but mostly garbage rap with repetitive "sprinkler" beats that isn't even interesting rhythmically.
Hell, even early hip hop wasn't completely terrible.
Note: modern mainstream white musicians aren't much better.
Is any music produced today, or any building built today, or book written, something that will still be loved in 200 years, like Mozart's 40th Symphony, St. Paul's or Ivanhoe?
It seems that modernity is incapable of producing anything good. And obviously, I know that only the good stuff from 200 years ago survived, but somehow, I don't see the Sydney Opera House being loved 200 years from now, or anything really.
Today today, or in modern times?
I think some jazz is going to be loved for a long time, mostly from around 1955-1965, give or take a few years. Some interesting stuff came out of that time and there is a lot of classical and baroque influence on it. A few Disney themes were turned in to jazz standards around then, too. "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Alice in Wonderland" for example. I think those movies will be loved and remembered and possibly carry the music with them.
As far as architecture, fuck no.