Continuity and change is continuously occurring and it is vital for future generations to come. Individual institutions, ideas, and problems can endure for long periods of time, even thousands of years. This is known as continuity. Historians also recognize that society is constantly undergoing change. The time between the 1960’s to the present has lots of evidential support of continuity and change occurring through the theme of music.
Continuity has occurred through the way fans act towards beloved bands. An example of this in the 1960’s is the ever so famous Beatles. Fans could not get enough of The Beatles! The moment they stepped on Australian soil, fans were screaming, fainting, crying and dreaming of just having some sort of contact with the boys. When an interviewee was asked about her experience with The Beatles, she described her life at the time. She was living in a home at the time which is a place young children went if their parents couldn’t look after them, much like a foster home. The interviewee mentions that everybody in the home loved The Beatles so much and their one wish in life was the see them in person. When they arrived in Australia, the interviewee made her dream come true. She escaped the home, wagged school and ran to the airport just to see The Beatles in person! She was even on TV for running across the tarmac. Of course she was in trouble when she arrived home but she mentions ‘I wouldn’t change it for the world. It was the best day of my life’. This shows the dramatic impact The Beatles had on Australian youth. Similar to this, when One Direction came to Australia for the first time, every girl dreamed of getting a ticket to their concert. At the concerts, girls were fainting, crying, screaming and falling in love with the boys of One Direction, much like what happened when The Beatles first appeared in Australia. Paul Mcartney quotes, "But they can sing, they make good records, so I think that's what I would see in common with The Beatles. Girls love them." Both The Beatles and One Direction have been successful in having continuity, but there is also a change in the bands as well.
Back in the 1960’s,saving up was hard as teenagers were only just starting to get jobs such as working at cafes. Some even had babysitting jobs. But as you can imagine, teenagers were often underpaid compared to nowadays. Everybody was working as many hours as they could and it was all for one reason, to buy the music The Beatles had to offer. All teenagers had record players, record discs, the lot. Everyone was obsessed with The Beatles music it became a social gathering just to listen to their music. Compared to nowadays where kids are illegally downloading songs onto their laptops and phones, it proves that music is very underappreciated in the present tense. It takes a kid about 2 minutes to log onto their computers and download songs without paying at all. It is just a ‘normal’ thing to society now to download songs illegally. We can see how much change there is in our societies today through this theme of buying music.
The 1960’s to the present in the music industry shows both continuity and change.
Continuity has occurred through the way fans act towards beloved bands. An example of this in the 1960’s is the ever so famous Beatles. Fans could not get enough of The Beatles! The moment they stepped on Australian soil, fans were screaming, fainting, crying and dreaming of just having some sort of contact with the boys. When an interviewee was asked about her experience with The Beatles, she described her life at the time. She was living in a home at the time which is a place young children went if their parents couldn’t look after them, much like a foster home. The interviewee mentions that everybody in the home loved The Beatles so much and their one wish in life was the see them in person. When they arrived in Australia, the interviewee made her dream come true. She escaped the home, wagged school and ran to the airport just to see The Beatles in person! She was even on TV for running across the tarmac. Of course she was in trouble when she arrived home but she mentions ‘I wouldn’t change it for the world. It was the best day of my life’. This shows the dramatic impact The Beatles had on Australian youth. Similar to this, when One Direction came to Australia for the first time, every girl dreamed of getting a ticket to their concert. At the concerts, girls were fainting, crying, screaming and falling in love with the boys of One Direction, much like what happened when The Beatles first appeared in Australia. Paul Mcartney quotes, "But they can sing, they make good records, so I think that's what I would see in common with The Beatles. Girls love them." Both The Beatles and One Direction have been successful in having continuity, but there is also a change in the bands as well.
Back in the 1960’s,saving up was hard as teenagers were only just starting to get jobs such as working at cafes. Some even had babysitting jobs. But as you can imagine, teenagers were often underpaid compared to nowadays. Everybody was working as many hours as they could and it was all for one reason, to buy the music The Beatles had to offer. All teenagers had record players, record discs, the lot. Everyone was obsessed with The Beatles music it became a social gathering just to listen to their music. Compared to nowadays where kids are illegally downloading songs onto their laptops and phones, it proves that music is very underappreciated in the present tense. It takes a kid about 2 minutes to log onto their computers and download songs without paying at all. It is just a ‘normal’ thing to society now to download songs illegally. We can see how much change there is in our societies today through this theme of buying music.
The 1960’s to the present in the music industry shows both continuity and change.