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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Something I said on the Other Place w.r.t. this BBC article:

If you look at the lists of #1 UK albums it's really only from 1964 that youth-targeted music dominates (and even then the Sound of Music OST is a massive seller in 66-67). I'd guess that listening to and socially enjoying popular music has been primarily an all-ages activity for almost all British history, barring maybe 40 years in the late 20th century. Which we happened to grow up in, so we think this trend is odd.

Is this true, or fair, or significant?

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Re: TRUE BUT ALSO MISLEADING SIMPLIFIED

[spittake.livejournal.com]

Are farmers middle class or working class? My mother has inherited lots of sheet music from the teens.

Were pianos more or less expensive that the new fangled radios and gramaphones?

Re: TRUE BUT ALSO MISLEADING SIMPLIFIED

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

expense: i think it would depend what decade you're comparing in

there were also player pianos and punch-hole music; and uprights in the parlour were (in the urban UK, at one point) an object of working-class aspiration