Both hiphop and house/techno are moribund these days. I liked both of these genres in the late 90's. However, hiphop has become so repetitive and boring that it's become a parady of itself. I liked house/techno more, but this has become boring as well, which it why it seems to be disappearing as well.

This is the first decade in living memory (I think since the 1920's) where there has not been a new genre of music to emerge, and this decade is 2/3s over. All of the kids are listening to the same stuff we listened to 10-25 years ago. This makes me wonder if there is a finite limit to the amount of new musical styles that are posssible, or if the artists simply lack imagination.

Perhaps all of the pirate downloading is killing off the industry. Maybe people, especially young people, simply lack the imagination to develop new kinds of music. If so, maybe this is a manefestation of the dysgenics that the human biodiversity crowd and other social conservatives keep harping about.

Posted by: Kurt9 on September 4, 2007 1:37 PM

Don't get too excited about Clark.

I read a review and saw several supposed factual assertions by him that were obviously wrong.

Let's see how the book fares after knowledgeable people have had a couple of swings at it.

See also, James McCormick's review on ChicagoBoyz of Sykes, Bryan, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland.

The idea that there is a genetic basis for British success looks implausible on its face.

Posted by: Lexington Green on September 4, 2007 1:41 PM

Music sales in general are down, while illegal downloading is growing at a nice clip. I don't think hip-hop is going away any time soon.

Posted by: the patriarch on September 5, 2007 2:03 PM






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