On the other hand, generations of kids grew up watching "Looney Tunes"... and the first reaction I get from kids to the sounds of my jazz and early swing records is a very intrigued "Ooooh... cartoon music!", so it isn't that they're totally oblivious or have never been exposed. In fact, their first reaction is childhood memory, and what kid doesn't look back on cartoons with fondness?Starkton wrote:I completely agree with you. For me, the key sentence of the article was as follows: "Participants valued a physical copy of The Empire Strikes Back more than a digital copy, for instance, only if they considered the Star Wars series to be films with which they strongly identified."CarlosV wrote:The problem with 78 rpm's is that most of its content does not identify with young people
Although I have tried to introduce young people to the hobby of collecting early recordings and phonographs over the last 20 years with lectures and as a university employee, not a single one has become a collector to my knowledge. Those who are active today started it decades ago as children or teenagers. Every now and then I get to know one of my few competitors and almost always they are old white men. If I stayed with my hobby for another 30 years, I could certainly buy a lot of collectibles from estates, which are financially unreachable at the moment. But what comes after me? My son, who just started his studies, but has never bought a physical copy of a record in his life and will probably never do so, would have the problem of having to market a bunch of items that were once valuable, but are now hard to sell. I'd better leave him shares in the Universal Music Group.
Who out there actually cannot pick up on the melody of "The Merry Go Round Broke Down" even if they have no clue what it's called?