Mark wrote: So even if many of the specific musicians and/or
songs mentioned by Pelecanos pass by some readers, doesn't
the detail still reveal the importance of music to those
characters and, as Kevin has pointed out, their
generation.
******** Yes. It does tell the reader that music was
important to the characters and their generation. I have to
wonder, though, if any generation that has come afterwards,
and a few that came before, have not had music that was
important to them. What I am saying is that music being
important to a generation is not very defining of that
generation. It is the type of music that does the defining.
When Pelecanos drops hints as to the nature of the music,
he's fleshing out the generation and adding color. When all
he mentions is the name of the song that's playing on the
radio, he's doing nothing special for nobody unless they know
the song.
miker
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