MUSIC
Something about which I know nothing...well another thing!
What are the orthodox explanations for why music became the defining art-form of the last 50 years?
I am not heavily into toons..but we were playing Desert Island Discsof an evening....mind you in Wales you would not need to play... it would be real.......and it probably will be in Chiang Mai...if we ever get there. I don't think I want to say songs or pieces...what I would want is discs that contained......of course in no particular order:

Schubert's 9th Symphony
Tom Waits including Grapefruit Moon
John Coltrane Blue Train
Anna and Kate McGarrigle..must have Heartbeats Accelerating
Paul Brady
Indochine...must have J'ai Demande a la Lune
William Boyce Symphonies
Varunee..Best
Suzanne Vega...?
J.S.Bach..probably Brandeburg concertos
Why?
Well there are of course other things that were probably greater milestones. Lawrence Tibbett singing De Glory Road-played endlessly in 1960! Elvis-Its Now or Never, echoing over Glandyfi along with Living Doll and Ricky Nelson, Scarlatti(Wanda Landowska) and Carmina Burana!. Hank Williams, John Lee Hooker.... Later Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Missa Creola and Brahms, Other Schubert, Neil Young, even later Nanci Griffith and Karla Bonhoff then Bird-Tongchai Mackinthai, Patchala and Mai Charoenpura...but these are people I still listen to! and that is the difference!