“It’s been a long time since there was a true generation gap, perhaps 50 years—you have to go back to the early years of rock and roll, when old people still talked about “jungle rhythms.” Everything associated with that music and its greasy, shaggy culture felt baffling and divisive, from the crude slang to the dirty thoughts it was rumored to trigger in little girls. That musical divide has all but disappeared. But in the past ten years, a new set of values has sneaked in to take its place, erecting another barrier between young and old. And as it did in the fifties, the older generation has responded with a disgusted, dismissive squawk. It goes something like this: Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy.”
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First there was Chuck Berry, Now there is TMI
April 13, 2015 | Comments Off on First there was Chuck Berry, Now there is TMI
While on a deep research dive for my paper, I came across “Say Everything” an article by Emily Nussbaum in New York Magazine from 2007 that looks at oversharing as generational rebellion on par with the advent of rock n’ roll. She writes,
