Stephen Worth, the director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, has been guest-blogging over at boing² and last weekend he did a series of posts on music. Specifically, great American music from the 20th century. Including clips of Armstrong (w/ the Ambassadors), Leadbelly, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos. Lotsa good stuff and definitely worth checking out. It's funny, though. I agree with his basic idea that most people just don't know anything the vast amount of great music that's out there. But the way he made that point rather bugged me. Just a little too much "oh these damn kids with their microstep and their dubtech and their emohouse." And get off his lawn. I just think it was lazy writing to use his young interns as the example of incurious people with limited musical tastes. Most people, whatever their ages, are incurious and have limited musical tastes in some ways. For example, even a well-intentioned set of recommendations might miss out on huge genres of music from all around the world.