Economic Depression..A catalyst for entertainment evolution?

As we are all aware, we are currently in another economic depression...although we have yet to coin this anything that has stuck like "The Great Depression," there is still clearly a great change that this has brought about. To understand this change let us first look at the 1920s.

With the Recent victory of WWI America was on a high. The troops were returning home, everyone was having some fun, and we were the "most powerful country in the world." This was combined with technological advances that were happening all across the spectrum. Art, Music, industrial and the military advancements all gave this era the title of "The Roaring 20's" The whole place was a lit with parties and laughter and music with dancing that no one had a care in the world. Unfortunately, this had to come to an end with the stock market crash in the end of the decade around 1928. This led us through the rest of the 20's and through the 30's until the US became involved in WWII. During this time, however, the music did not stop...it simply changed. There was still the upbeat times of the flapper, but a lot of soul start to develop in music as the sad emotions inspired both music and art of this time. The mood for jazz was set just perfectly and sure enough, jazz ragtime and blues were all jumping into the light. Americans were so bogged down with economical struggle that artist were letting them escape from reality with their new style of expression and unheard of rhythms and sounds.

Now let us look at today! We entered into the "Great Recession" as some call it around 2007 and 2008.

We are now entering into the world of computers and we hear that in the new "Synthesized Voice." Computers and electronic pianos are responsible for what we hear these days. Most artists use these machines to hit the perfect pitch and tune, as well as automatically add the different octaves and levels in their music. And of course all of listen to these songs on repeat (don't lie to me fools! i do it, so do you). And there is nothing wrong with these music, its what america and the world wanted as we entered this recession.

ENJOY!