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[cheekbones3]

After observing the generally dismal performance in quiz music rounds of younger participants, I'm wondering if they are just struggling due to a lack of general musical knowledge (as I did on occasion at that age, although nowhere near that much), or whether the explosion in sources of musical broadcasts, and the one-dimensional nature of many of these sources is meaning that a lot of people are now illiterate to most music outside their own sphere of interest. Conversely, this may always have been the case, but I point to such programmes as "Pick of the Pops" which used to expose me to a lot of older music when I listened to Radio 1 constantly during the eighties, which now has fallen victim to an almost exclusively contemporary playlist, and resides on Radio 2.

(Please bear in mind, this is my usual back-of-envelope thinking, and coherence may only come after I see some results coming in, or at least how uninformative my options are)

And so, a poll!:


[Poll #598249]

Comments

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Also, you mentioned local clubs as a childhood influence - did you ahve extremely liberal parents/bouncers?! :P

[skx.livejournal.com]

I took childhood to last longer ... 8-18ish.

Before age 8 I think I just listened to whatever was on the radio with no real care, and maybe the odd record my mom would play.

After that I started taking an interest myself.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Ah fair enough!