re: #1 Charmingly Persistent

Over on Balloon Juice there is a post discussing what the emblematic music of various generations is. I am not all that interested in that, since I think “generations” are far too big to say anything about the people in them…. I wonder if people a bit younger than me who grew up litening to rap were better able to understand race from the beginning?….

So, what do other people see as their coming of age, figuring out who you are, influence music?

Grew up singing Bach and Gregorian badly. “My” first music was Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Sandy Nelson (what my guardian called “jungle music” in her better moments).