Rock and Roll Generation – Music and Aging
Recently, I have been thinking about age and music.
Now at first glimpse – the two don't seem to go together but, when you think about it, our music follows us as we mature from teens to adults to middle-agers to seniors to elderly.
It was something my cohort and I would joke about when we were young reporters in Tisdale. We both would go to the senior's homes to take pictures of the “old time music” and would note that the what was enjoyed by seniors was the music of their youth. Further, we wondered how “old time music” would be when he and I were in wheelchairs with blankets on our knees…laughing at the thought of giant speakers, disco balls, cool lighting, smoke and an aging band doing AC DC, Poison and Metallica tunes.
It was funny then – but now that I am past 40 years of age, technically rapidly heading towards being a senior, I am thinking about this more.