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Generations
Are there times when "generation gap" is more gaping than other times?
I know they say that during the '50s, the generation gap widened considerably just due to the fact that many children born during the post war period were coming of age in a time where automobiles were affordable to just about everyone and these kids could leave the farm, do more and do more things they wished to keep secret from their parents. This was a time when more and better antibiotics were needed for the steep and rapid increase of venereal diseases.
They say the generation gap we have now is a big one, and the gap is due to children growing up with technology and parents that are lagging behind in these skills. Children can behave one way on the Internet and still be the child you think they are all at the same time.
How much does the era in which our grandparents raised our parents affect our generation the way they raise their children?
I do wonder if there is some sort of pattern between narrow and wide generation gaps? Kinda like fashion, ya know they say every twenty years, it's back in style again.
How big or small will the gap be between the children growing up now, and the children they raise?
Some gaping never seems to change from decade to decade, rarely ever does a parent like or understand the music their kids do, maybe a few artists, but there's always a gap. How many parents over the past half century have declared the music of their youth as "real music" and their kid's music as "crap"?
Kids always want to express themselves outwardly whether it's black, goth, pierced and tatted to little girls dressing way too grown up. Every generation has had it's share of "Oh no, you are not leaving this house dressed like that!"
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| February 16, 2008, 13:02 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Generations
I believe that there is and isn't a generation gap. I know that at least from my grandparents to my parents to my me and then on to my kids, has passed that work ethic that has seemed to be lost in so many other kids.
The ironic thing, for some the music that we, my generation listened to, to which we always heard, turn that trash down, now some of our parents are thinking that its not all that bad, and are listening to it. 
So I guess everything comes full circle, at some point.
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| February 16, 2008, 19:40 |
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Re: Generations
I would think that the gap has been less in some eras, eras where families lived pretty isolated, had little exposure to anything but themselves.
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| February 16, 2008, 21:41 |
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Re: Generations
There's a gap between me and my kids... definitely a gap.. lol But in some respects, it's not that far. She listens to a lot of the old music that I listen to.. She's a Waylon fan like me (yes!!  ) and sometimes she even borrows my clothes! But yes, there's still a gap 
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| February 19, 2008, 09:28 |
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dave2big
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somewhere, Nebraska, US
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Re: Generations
i am a true victim (i guess) of the generation gap that exists when any younger person asks "who is Jerry Lee Lewis" and then plugs in a rap cd ! i would rather eat glass than listen to rap ! in fact, i would smile while i was doing it!!! now, does that make me old,crazy,or just out of touch ???????
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| February 19, 2008, 17:29 |
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I hear "I hate rap" allot.....but really? There's allot of different kinds of rap music...it's kinda like someone saying "I hate rock"....then you wonder, what rock n roll do you hate? Old rock, rockabilly, classic rock, grunge, pop, metal, industrial, soft, acid or alternative?
I think we sometimes hear only a sample of rap that may not be a likeable type of rap at a uncomfortable decible level and declare the whole category "crap".
I don't care for the gangster type much myself, but free flow I do like quite a bit, freestyle is impressive, but I wouldn't want to listen to it for too long too often, allot of very beautiful sounding R&B or pop music is just "soft rap" ....There's allot more styles and kinds of rap than the few I just mentioned, some I like very much, some....not so much!
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| February 19, 2008, 19:51 |
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World's first commercially acceptable rap song was sung by a blonde white woman in 1979.
Rapture by Blondie, huge hit for them. Most people that say they don't like rap, like that song.
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| February 20, 2008, 13:35 |
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dave2big
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normally chazzy i take your word as law, BUT to say that rap is music,grrrrrrr  maybe to you dear but i will NEVER,EVER,EVER call that (c)rap music !! sorry, it needed to be said........
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| February 20, 2008, 16:51 |
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pepper
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I don't as a general rule, like rap as a genre, I do like a few rap type songs, things by Linkin Park and the old Aerosmith/RunDMC that have rap sound but not the same type of lyrics.
  
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| February 20, 2008, 17:14 |
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When you think about it....really...square dance calling is really just hillbilly rap....
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| February 20, 2008, 20:21 |
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QUOTE (dave2big @ February 20, 2008, 16:51)normally chazzy i take your word as law, BUT to say that rap is music,grrrrrrr maybe to you dear but i will NEVER,EVER,EVER call that (c)rap music !! sorry, it needed to be said........
Oh no worry, of course you're very entitled to have your preferences and opinions on rap. The opinion you have of rap is pretty much the same opinion I have of top ten popular country music! I just don't like it!
Rap has come a long way in a short period of time, and it'll keep evolving and spinning off.
My parents music....some I like, some I disliked very much.
The very early pop/rock my parents generation listened to..allot of it was just silly and annoying really but some of it was groundbreaking in a sense that it may have been the first real era that devoloped a huge generation gap in music.
Wil Smith, wow....how long ago was it when he was a just a teen kid doing rap?
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| February 21, 2008, 06:56 |
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NRG4U
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Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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I always considered the 60's - 70's the biggest gap. The music was changing, for the better i might add... hair got longer, free love, & of course drugs, & anti war demonstrations. All those things happened, which caused a big gap between parents & kids. Also many kids joined R.O.T.C. during the war....which came to be known as Run Off To Canada....lol
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| February 21, 2008, 08:40 |
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I see whatcha mean...the sixties and seventies was a very wide gap, but maybe the gap started in the fifties with all the evil jitterbugging, Bill Haley and the Comets devil music and on to the Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, Elvis's hip action.
I think maybe the birth of heavy metal and acid rock had to have worried parents into fits!
Especially bands with parent scaring names like Black Sabbath,
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| February 21, 2008, 11:01 |
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