Modern and classic music

Many people think that modern music is jus a bunch of sounds and beats with no rhythm and sense. They say that classic music is better than modern music. If you don’t believe, all you have to do is talk your parents or your grandpa or grandma, and ask them! But that isn’t true. I’m not pretending to make a universal point of view about modern and classic music: this is my own opinion about it.

From my perspective as a lover of music, I have found that modern music is a sort of evolution of classic music. This means that modern music has its foundations in classic music. In this perspective, we aren’t allowed to say which is better, the former or the latter. I think it is hard to say which the best is, or the worst: classic or modern.

While old-middle aged people prefer classic music –most of them-, younger people prefer modern music. Whether they prefer this or that music is not our business, the truth is that new sounds were invented or played in the past, it is just that the music has been changing over the time.

It is the same with the human being’s behavior, in the biological sense, and, of course in the social and cultural meaning. Institutions are changing and adapting to the new life style. Thus, music in different stages is reflecting life in those stages.

For example, rock music which was born during the 50’s but had its momentum at the end of the 60’s, when the most famous band, The Beatles, appeared in the social life scene, was taking hold among younger people; they took the music as a way to express their feelings about the social and political circumstances, like the cold war, or, as a whole idea about the consequences of the social movements and putting them in their songs (psychedelic, grunge, punk).

In brief, modern and classic music both have elements that we can highlight, but not in order to say which is better. Modern music has its roots from the classic; as modern is the classic’s evolution, some years forward, modern is going to be, likely, the classic music.