Rock of Ageist

[ufkacbln]

Apparently the lyrics of rock music are a negative portrayal of old age......

Conclusion
From this study, it is evident that mainly negative representations of age and ageing are available in popular music texts. It is imagined that the negative representations of age and ageing can be dispiriting, confidence and esteem lowering for older people and their potential impact might be considered carefully by artists. However, while evidence exists that negative and positive emotions can influence health and well-being, further qualitative research is needed to explore what impact precisely the negative texts have on those experiencing ageing.

Aside from the obvious - I love the "It is imagined" statement

So you have an idea and then "imagine" what you want the result to be

 

[mybike]

Apparently the lyrics of rock music are a negative portrayal of old age......



Aside from the obvious - I love the "It is imagined" statement

So you have an idea and then "imagine" what you want the result to be

Isn't pop music mainly about teenage angst?

 

[vernon]

I can't imagine what this song means.

 

[claudbutler]

Apparently the lyrics of rock music are a negative portrayal of old age......



Aside from the obvious - I love the "It is imagined" statement

So you have an idea and then "imagine" what you want the result to be

Conclusion this sounds like another academic after another grant to listen to more rock music so he can publish another pointless report.

 

[raleighnut]

I think the fact that a lot of 'rock' music is performed by pensioners these days is somewhat ironic.

 

[Fnaar]

I always wonder about the old songs that simply wouldn't get written in this day & age:
good morning little schoolgirl
you're sixteen
etc etc...
there was a lot of it about!

 

[ufkacbln]

I can't imagine what this song means.

Gets a special mention in the paper!

It was also discoverable in the texts that old age identity was associated with physical decline and unattractive- ness and that old age was associated with being unlovable as evidenced by The Beatles When I’m Sixty-four ‘When I get older losing my hair many years from now will you still be sending me a valentine birthday greeting, bottle of wine If I’d been out till quarter to three would you lock the door Will you still need me Will you still feed me When I’m sixty-four’.

 

[ufkacbln]

I think the fact that a lot of 'rock' music is performed by pensioners these days is somewhat ironic.

....and even more ironic is that many of those pensioners are the ones with fond memories of these very tracks

"It is imagined" that most pensioners would find these tracks as enjoyable as they found them in their youth

 

[Piemaster]

My musical tastes have changed as I've gotten older. I could, for example, be a Justin Bieber fan now.
Obviously I'm not. But I could be.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Any excuse for a great rock track.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Can't see a link to this research, not that I was gonna read it, mind
One can imagine it's a bit dated

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I hope I die before I get old.

 

[ColinJ]

I always wonder about the old songs that simply wouldn't get written in this day & age:
good morning little schoolgirl
you're sixteen
etc etc...
there was a lot of it about!

I was a fan of the Canterbury scene in the early 1970s. Caravan was one of the bands that I liked and In the Land of Grey and Pink was an album of theirs that I was fond of at the time. I had one of the TV music channels on a couple of months back and a very elderly incarnation of Caravan were playing Winter Wine from that album. There was something slightly creepy about a pensioner vocalist singing ...

Bells chime three times, naked dancers enter slowly
Smoky room, scented gloom, audience eating, fat men drinking
Candles burn, a dull red light illuminates the breasts of four young girls
Dancing, prancing, provoking - dreams are always ending far too soon
Life's too short to be sad, wishing things you'll never have

 

[slowmotion]

I always wonder about the old songs that simply wouldn't get written in this day & age:
good morning little schoolgirl
you're sixteen
etc etc...
there was a lot of it about!

By today's values, some of them seem quite spectacularly , errr..."inappropriate". ( or downright seedy ) . The thing is that if you were a sex-obsessed teenager at the time, it was all wonderfully exciting.
Here's Stray Cat Blues from 1968.
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[Haitch]

this huge stage presenteth nought but shows


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5NtjqsIBc&sns=em