Posted
8:18 AM
by Gene
There was a swing "revival". That didn't last. Then came a burlesque "revival". That didn't last. Now comes
a bluegrass "revival". These things don't last because the originals were indigenous, and they bloomed for a purpose, and they were integral to the culture, and they were
popular. These revivals largely serve nothing more than half-baked nostalgia, and they're often too gimmicked up to be real, and unlike the originals they never get beyond the cult phase. And they're all the more painful because they remind us of the age of GENIUS we live in.
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