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1. amiga386 · 1790693228 · focus · HN ↗

   The Beatles seemed to have had an effect on the youth of their day that hasn't been fully repeated since, even though there are a lot of groundbreaking, genre-defining musicians that came after them.

   I was not around in the 1960s, and I was wondering if anyone who was could answer this:

   It seemed to me that the Beatles set off a cultural shift in pop music. They started out in beat music, but in a few short years they brought in psychedelic culture, they adopted Indian classical music and instruments, they used tape-editing techniques in the studio to make rudimentary "electronic music"...

   My question is: did they establish these shifts, or were these shifts already gaining steam independently and they popularised them?

   1. clickety_clack · 1790703129 · focus · HN ↗

      I think maybe the radio and possibly tv programs that were shown probably had a lot to do with it. Just like social media came along had had a cultural impact, national tv and radio shows that weren’t targeted at news and high brow culture might have been pretty new at the time.

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