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| This guy plays an electric fan like an electric guitar |
The evolution of music is a swinging pendulum - new things develop in response and in resistance to the old things. The evolution of music is a swinging pendulum - new things develop in response and in resistance to the old things. Nirvana's grunge rock is anti- the likes of flashy arena rock like Queen and Guns N' Roses.
This is a common theme in the arts in general, but now there's some interesting data to articulate this pattern in the music world. (eight million musical albums 1956 - 2015, via Discogs)
And in other music-oriented news - 765 million online music plays, streamed from Spotify in 2016, by 1 million people from 51 countries:
- people of every culture listen to more relaxing music late at night and more energetic music during daytime business hours
- people were more likely to listen to less intense music as they got older
- people in the West tend to play more arousing music, while those in Asia play more relaxing music
- in the Southern Hemisphere, women chose music with higher intensity than men
- in the Northern Hemisphere, women listen to music with lower intensity, particularly in the evening
Notes:
Peter Klimek et al, Fashion and art cycles are driven by counter-dominance signals of elite competition: quantitative evidence from music styles, Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2019). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0731
Minsu Park et al. Global music streaming data reveal diurnal and seasonal patterns of affective preference, Nature Human Behaviour (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0508-z
