Do you think rock music will ever return to the mainstream?
I'm 17 and the lead guitarist in a local rock band. We sound kinda like early Soundgarden with lower vocals and more complex melodies. It is my dream to become successful, but it worries me that we won't make it because no one seems to care about rock music anymore. Do you think it's just going through a low point and will return or is practically dead in the water?
How do you think music will evolve over the next 100 years?
As far as harmony goes, I think there won't be much of a change in how the vast majority of people like to compose or listen to music. Western harmony is very popular around the world and could very much stick around for a long time.One possibility is that society will move away from liking major/minor scales and maybe the social norm will be that altered scales are much better. What if society slowly evolved to a point where a whole different scale/tonality starting become the default. I can't imagine that it would evolve massively but in the past Western music never used to be in the diatonic scale we know an love today. Most countries had their own scales and different 'flavours' of music.As far as genres go, I'd say there's little room for any more genres. There's only so far you can go until you start getting really nit-pickety about sub-genres. Even nowadays, sub-genres are very similar to each other to the point that one might not actually notice.We might see the return of older genres and ideas. What if British Light Music came back? Maybe orchestral-pop will become the dominant genre. I reckon that the film music genre will hit it's peak sometime in the 20s-30s. Cinematic-style music is already massively popular and sales are growing in this genre. Not just actual film tracks like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings but also artists like Audiomachine and Two Steps From Hell.As far as innovation goes. There's not so much room for innovation in music anymore simple because classical art music has already depleted it's options to the point where John Cage's 4'33 has basically declared that everything in the natural world is music - we just have to listen. There's also limits onto how many instruments can be made without sounding like a previously invented instrument.Although i would like to see someone perhaps create a new wind instrument :p Maybe one with a weird shaped bell to see what timbre it makes :pMaybe new materials will come into existence that have new tonal qualities that will completely open a new set of instruments to invent. There's many different avenues you could explore with this such as electronic music innovation, orchestral innovation, pop innovation. Heck, what if they could somehow produce music from the activity in the brain? :D
Is Jitterbug a genre of music?
A Jitterbug, is actually a DANCER! The term was first coined by Cab Calloway in 1935 with his recording "Call of the Jitterbug" and the film "Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party". The term jitterbug comes from an early 20th-century slang term used to describe alcoholics who suffered from the "jitters". The term became associated with swing dancers who danced without any control or knowledge of the dance. In popular culture, it became generalized to mean a swing dancer (e.g., you were a jitterbug), a type of swing dance (e.g., you danced the jitterbug), or the act of swing dancing (e.g., you were jitterbugging). So Jitterbug Music, would be any kind of swing music. If you want to specifically talk about swing dancing, then you should look up "Lindy Hop". Check out this funny short film from the 1940s, that features jitterbugs dancing Lindy Hop and other swing dances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbaNYWkQY... Anyways, I hope that helps!
Has your taste in music affected your political views?
A lot of punks I know claim to be anarchist, and they don't even know what it is, Can't name a single school of anarchism or name any anarchist revolutionaries, I don't think you have to know everything about a political idea, but its kinda stupid to claim you are an anarchist, when you don't even know who Peter Kropotkin or Murray Brookchin are, but they know who discharge are. Has anybody on here chosen their political views, based on their taste in music?