Those Timeless Tunes of the 1940s, ’60s, and ’80s – Pacific Standard
▻https://psmag.com/those-timeless-tunes-of-the-1940s-60s-and-80s-72358a991aaa
When was the “golden age” of pop music? Opinions vary widely, in part because the tunes that made up the soundtrack of our adolescence tend to exert a primal pull.
But new research finds that, after setting this bias aside, younger Americans generally prefer songs that topped the charts during three decades: the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s.
“Music of these decades produced the strongest emotional responses, and the most frequent and specific personal memories,” Cornell University psychologist Carol Lynne Krumhansl writes in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
(bon, il y a des bêtises dans l’article sur la chronologie des inventions de support musicaux...)