Yesterday in the NYTimes, David Brooks lamented the decline of arena rock and decried that the music of young musicians “stinks” in his article, “The Segemented Society.”
Brooks sounds like a curmudgeon complaining that Rock n’ Roll ain’t what it used to be. Despite his longing for “all-purpose rock,” Brooks is honestly trying to participate in a debate about the effects of racial, socioeconomic, and technological forces on today’s music. Brooks was rather clumsy in his argument, perhaps because he is limited by the space of an opinion column in the NYTimes and the fact that he isn’t a rock journalist. But he refers to two great articles by people who don’t share his limitations.
