Older generations turn off music of the young because they love the music of their era. Each generation has an era of music they listen to and it seems to be embedded in their soul as the only good music. Therefore the older people who listened to good classic rock and roll might not even listen to newer types of music from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

However today we have a mixture of many forms of music and the true music lover will listen to any and all music. Music appreciation is important and all generations of music lovers listen to both the old and the new.

But the really old who like polkas and Frank Sinatra might very well turn off rock and roll calling it the music of the young. It is because they grew up with their ethic heritage music and music of their era. People also as they grow older lose their youthful ideals and can’t think in terms of the newer trends that impact music.

There is a big difference in music styles in the era’s of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s music. The 30s music was about big bands, jazz, and swing music. The 40s produced singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como. The 50s music was all about love and romance. The 60s music was about revolution, causes, and political ideals. The 70s music continued the trend of the 60s.

In each generation a new generation of teenagers grow up hearing the sounds of their generation, and they love their sounds, and want to hear them for the rest of their life. So as they get older they cling to their old ways which include the sounds of music.

However, all music is music of the young and old alike. Rock and roll of the 60s is still popular and new rock artists are still being made. The people who are now old are rock and rollers. So why would the older people turn off their own music? And some of them are still performing. Jazz, most popular in the 30s is here to stay and many people listen to jazz today as a major music art form.

Like tailored clothes that always remain in style, there are music forms that once discovered become embedded in the culture and remain for the young and old alike.

Rock stars of today try to imitate the rock stars of the 60’s and 70’s. People who lived in the sixties and seventies who are now old do not want to listen to cheap imitations, but the real thing. But if the music is creative and bold and says something new, the old-timers still want to listen.

However there is also the trend of people embedded in their cultural music form to turn off the music of other cultural forms such as rock and rollers may not want to listen to the music of the 30s and 40s which is older music. They might even make fun of older types of music. So older generations turn off music of the young, but the young also turn off music of the old.

However all great musicians and singers listen to the music of the young and old alike and draw on these other music forms to come up with new music forms.

It is more important to think in terms of music not in terms of young and old. Music transcends age. If you are a real music lover, you don’t turn off good music. If you never knew anything about music well that is a different story. Many people only suppose they are into music and turn off any music or turn on any music. It has nothing to do with age. Old people listen to opera and young people listen to opera. Country/Western never changes. It is for the young and old no matter what generation.

Whether you are old or young, music appreciation is important to understand the music of all cultures, generations, and era’s. If you are studying music it is important to listen to all forms of music, but at some point all people will decide on a particular form of music they like best and rather having to do with age, it has more to do with personal likes, dislikes, and ideals. All people like the music of their era the best.