“From The Beatles To Biggie And Dylan To Diddy”

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Over time music has changed drastically. Styles and genres, the way people actually create and listen to it, and how it affects the current trends in fashion and sexuality have all become quite diverse. People born in the mid 40’s through the 50’s probably listened to or have at least heard of artists like The Beatles and Bob Dylan. These names run parallel in respect to popularity to rappers like Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls/ The Notorious B.I.G.) and Sean Combs (P. Diddy/ Puff Daddy) now.
“My favorite music always seemed to be rock that I heard in the mid to late 60's and the 70's. I'm a babyboomer born in 1951, so that was the music I grew up with.
I'm sure most people my age can remember where they were when the Beatles first played on the Ed Sullivan Show. The Beatles were favorites for many young people during that period in time (Near).” Most people that grew up in the baby-boomer generation listened to mostly rock and roll music. Popular artists included The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Elvis Presley. Also, most people that grew up in the baby-boomer era might have started listening to a wider variety of rock, but haven’t really expanded their listening to other genres such as rap or jungle. “It has its place as alternative genre, but doesn’t have enough variability (Sefcik, Steve),” was the comment that I got when I asked my dad what his opinion on other types of music such as electronic or rap. Similarly, my mom said that she wasn’t crazy about other types of music (Sefcik, Terry). On the other hand she listens to mostly folk music and expanded to blues and bluegrass in her teens, which shows that not everyone that was living at the time was obsessed with only rock and roll.
Music also influences the way people socialize and vice versa society (friends, family, radio stations, etc.) effects how and what people listen to, especially when they’re young. For instance if someone primarily like...