Comments on: Editorial: Nostalgia, Wave 2 http://lusipurr.com/2015/05/14/editorial-nostalgia-wave-2/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Wolfe http://lusipurr.com/2015/05/14/editorial-nostalgia-wave-2/#comment-90813 Thu, 14 May 2015 23:38:27 +0000 http://lusipurr.com/?p=12861#comment-90813 Good article Mel, as usual.

I’ve got my own two cents about gaming having blown up bigger than it can afford to maintain and now finding ways to be competitive without blowing out the bank, but I’m terrible at trying to put words together.

]]> By: Lusipurr http://lusipurr.com/2015/05/14/editorial-nostalgia-wave-2/#comment-90812 Thu, 14 May 2015 18:32:05 +0000 http://lusipurr.com/?p=12861#comment-90812 A quick correction: discos were still around in the eighties, not as a nostalgic look back, but because they were still coming down from the height of their popularity, which was in the mid- and late 70s, and not the 60s as you assert. 1970 (Opening of The Loft), 1971 (Soul Train on TV), or 1973 (Disco covered in Rolling Stone) are generally given as the ‘start’ date for the arrival of disco, which would make a ‘craze’ in the 60s impossible.

The idea that nostalgia is on a twenty-year cycle strikes me as overly formalistic in the first place, and not really true in the second. We’re not in the middle of a mid-90s nostalgia boom right now, musically or culturally. In fact, of all the things to be making a come-back right now, Disco is one of them, and Folk Rock is another, both of which hail from a period of time more contemporaneous with the youth of my mother than of myself.

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