{"id":13562,"date":"2015-04-29T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2015-04-29T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:50:31","slug":"musical-immaturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/musical-immaturity\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical immaturity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re worried about losing your love of new music, your fears are justified. That’s according to new research that finds listeners reach “maturity” around age 33. In other words, you’re done with discovering new music when you reach your mid-thirties.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is that so?<\/p>\n

On my way home from Overland Park this past weekend, I listened to Be Bop Deluxe<\/a>, who fall within the 33-year limit. However, on the way up I listened to Floating Cloud<\/a> and Onmyouza, both of whom are recent bands active in the 21st century. I recently compiled an iTunes playlist of favorite non-classical tunes. It includes plenty of pieces from my youth by Fairport Convention, Frank Zappa, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Spirit, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Cream and so on. But there are also such artists as the Hot Club of Cowtown<\/a>, Jun Togawa<\/a>, ((Hers is the only version of “Pachelbel’s Canon” I can tolerate.)) No Strings Attached, Gjallarhorn<\/a>, Yuki Kajiura<\/a>, Rare Air<\/a>, Mayumi Kojima<\/a>, Susumu Hirasawa<\/a> and others whom I never heard until well after my 33rd year.<\/p>\n

In fact, I’ve found more music in the past 15 years than in all my years in the previous century, thanks to the internet. I may be atypical, but I don’t think I’m unique. I seriously doubt that I’m the only person my age who actively searches for new music to listen to.<\/p>\n

(Via Dustbury<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re worried about losing your love of new music, your fears are justified. That’s according to new research that finds listeners reach “maturity” around age 33. In other words, you’re done with discovering new music when you reach your mid-thirties. Is that so? On my way home from Overland Park this past weekend, I … Continue reading “Musical immaturity?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3wK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13570,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}