We have to remember that certain people were wholly convinced that Jazz in the early 20th century was evidence that the Jazz generation with all of its “degener

We have to remember that certain people were wholly convinced that Jazz in the early 20th century was evidence that the Jazz generation with all of its “degeneracy” would destroy civilization because the music in their generation was somehow pure or whatever. And certain people threw absolute tantrums that Elvis and his gyrating hips on television was “cultural degeneracy” of the worst kind. Since they didn’t personally know anything of modern music they were sure that their generation had far better music. Parents absolutely freaked out over packed stadiums of suburban kids singing along to Little Richard’s “Good Golly Miss Molly, you sure like to ball.” And you guessed it, they were crying about cultural “degeneracy.” And certain people in the 60s and 70s stamped their feet in anger and shook their fists at the sky that Led Zeppelin was nothing but noise and the Beatles were admitting on television that they ...[audible gasp]... did drugs! They decried the “degeneracy” and that society was falling and that music hasn’t been good since their days when wholesome Elvis and Little Richard were popular. In the 90s this group convinced themselves “degenerates” Marilyn Manson and Slayer and Rap were a sure sign that music was dead and that music hadn’t been good since the days when good music like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were popular Many in every generation are totally convinced that their generation was the last generation to make “good” music. And perhaps more troubling, there’s a certain group of people who are obsessed with “degeneracy”