Even if we weren’t the least bit interested when younger, it seems we generally take to classical music as we get older. That’s certainly been the trend up until now, or until Generation X – those born between 1961 and 1981 – came along.
Recent research shows that Gen Xers are yet to “participate” in classical [...]
Generation X slow in taking an interest in classical music
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 February, 2010 to the music subset
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Positive mid-life crisis, no pirate like earrings or Ferraris here
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 24 December, 2009 to the trends subset
The first Generation Xers are beginning to enter mid-life, but rather than impose the “traditional” self-indulgent mid-life crisis on themselves (and their families), some are opting for a “positive mid-life crisis”, whereby they opt for a lifestyle change but are also being of assistance to others at the same time:
A new age group is [...]
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Presenting the MacBook Air kids, Generation X is so 1964 – 1983
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 14 August, 2009 to the comment subset
An alternative – or would that be a more accurate – generational periodization scheme, which splits – depending on whichever scheme you’ve adhered to previously (and they seem to vary in terms of exactly which “generation” belongs to which time period) – Generation X into the PC and Net generations.
People born after 1953 but before [...]
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Everything new is old… Gen X are the new Baby boomers
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 to the comment subset
Generation X are the new Baby Boomers, at least when the music and movies of their formative years, the 1980’s is transposed with that of the mid to late 1950’s, the heyday of the Boomers.
Listening to Michael Jackson’s Thriller today is equivalent to listening to Elvis Presley’s first album (1956) at the time of [...]
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