Sep
24
2005

cultural memory

An interesting observation about the 1960s and nostalgia for that era, from an article about Bob Dylan by David Greenberg at Slate.com:

We’ve been drenched for so long in so much mass-produced 1960s kitsch that our Pavlovian responses to the music, words, and images of the time override critical assessments of it. And at bottom, today’s cultural climate doesn’t much distinguish between history and nostalgia … So, maybe we have to resign ourselves to accepting “the 1960s” as it’s purveyed in mass culture — and to concede, with the postmodernists, that ultimately there’s no real way to separate the 1960s from our myths of it.

(“The ’60s Trap: Why critics ignore the rest of Dylan’s career” - 09/23/05)

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