The New York Times:
I imagine a college classroom in 300 years, in which a hip instructor is leading a tutorial filled with students. These students relate to rock music with no more fluency than they do the music of Mesopotamia: It’s a style they’ve learned to recognize, but just barely (and only because they’ve taken this specific class). Nobody in the room can name more than two rock songs, except the professor. He explains the sonic structure of rock, its origins, the way it served as cultural currency and how it shaped and defined three generations of a global superpower. He shows the class a photo, or perhaps a hologram, of an artist who has been intentionally selected to epitomize the entire concept. For these future students, that singular image defines what rock was.
So what’s the image?
This is a really interesting thought experiment. Who do you think will be the single most remembered “rock star” 300 years from now? Chuck Klosterman’s guess might surprise you.
Good reasoning. Ask five other experienced rock critics, and they’ll probably all arrive at five other equally logical conclusions based upon entirely different precepts.
I won’t argue with the song he chose, but I’d say Jimi Hendrix’ version at Berkeley would define rock’n’roll better than the original.
The perception of Rock is tied to changes in society – Rock was the soundtrack to these changes, maybe a catalyst, but definitely not their cause. These times are gone – people today do not care about freedoms (not their own, and certainly not those of others), they are fully occupied with their self-importance, entitlements and health data (or, the even dumber ones, with their right to carry firearms)… Their soundtrack is a constant weeping and moaning, performed by talent-free robots like Adele and the bad-hair-Weekend.
If you show students in 300 years a hologram of Jimi Hendrix or Rick Astley won’t make a difference. Both will mean nothing to them. And maybe that’s a good thing. Most statues and monuments are dedicated to mass murderers and war criminals. Good people rarely have a place in history.
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