Reading Response: Mark Fischer

It is no longer the same how cultural changes have affected life in the past in comparison to the 21st Century. Anyone born in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and experienced the culture variations can attest to change of culture. The change of culture is best documented in television programs, music, and movies. The television programs, music, and movies offer proof to the change where there is a clear distinction from what was in the 1960s to now. The shift in television programs as experienced in the early years of sitcoms is not like today where humor is no longer top priority. The music offers a difference of how cultural change has taken effect in that the originality of music found in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s is rarely experienced in the 21st-century music. It leaves a lot to be desired, where few artists stand out in their genre of music. Besides, there is less change in the music made from 90s and how it sounds compared to the 2000s.

In terms of the movies, I find the timeframe has led to a distinct change only in terms production due to technology. In most movies, there is a lot of recreation of the past films which resonates the final image of the British television series Sapphire and Steel, where it aired with a title “there is no more” like there is nothing new movies, TV programs and music artists can offer. They have reached a dead end. Therefore, in music, television programs, and movies, they all focus on recreation of past shows with a modernized aspect. As that happens, digitalization has allowed people a chance to re-watch past shows and compare the present shows available today. For instance, the story of time travel in many movies, in my opinion, has had same script but different characters. Similar to music, there is a lot of sampling of the sounds used in musical sounds of the 1960s to the 90s to create the 21st Century type of music. The content promoted by music, television programs, and movies reflects the society’s culture, and the lack of slow change or less change shows there is a deterioration of how our culture is changing, which means that we may have no more than to go back to the past to relive it in the present.

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