The Many Faces of Music
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
When I was a kid growing up music seemed to be secularized across the country by region. There was the East Coast sound, the California Sound, Country music from the south and R&B from Detroit – the Motown sound.
If you lived in NYC and swept through your radio dial, basically you heard the East Coast sound. You would be hard put to find a Country radio station in New York City.
I grew up in St. Louis where there was simply Pop music. Back then there were only a handful of musical genres to listen to: Pop, R&B, Rock n’ Roll and Country. Occasionally you might find a Jazz station if the city was big enough. And oh yes, Classical.
Today it’s a whole new world of diversity and complexity. (more…)
