Thread 128303813

Did the snobby music nerd record store clerk stereotype exist before the rock era? Were there hipsters lecturing shoppers about Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman in the 40s?

i kinda feel like it has to be a gen x thing

>>128303813 (OP)
>Frank Sinatra
>Benny Goodman
Bad examples but their were snobs who lectured about velvet underground before they got really big

>>128303880
Records only become widespread in the 50s and music only became cool in the 60s so this makes a lot of sense

>>128303938
wrong, what about blues, jazz, classical?

>>128303999
Those genres have never been all that popular with a handful of exceptions

>>128303938
Everyone had a phonograph by the 30s at the latest

>>128303999
>classical
until the 60s classical was still very respected and most people only liked classical and hated the blues
>the blues
the blues was so black most people hated it. There's a reason why it's hard to find old blues recordings
>jazz
This is the closest one to maybe being true.
also record shops didn't even really exist yet so uhhhhhh >>128303880

>>128303813 (OP)
haha OP I love froggo XD

>>128304101
>haha OP I love froggo XD
how many of you are here you guys are in every hobby thread get out of my head please leave go to >>>/b/ please leave us alone man please

>>128303880
>>128303813 (OP)
Beatniks.

>>128303813 (OP)
>that fucking hat again
godDAMMIT

>>128303813 (OP)
>Were there hipsters lecturing shoppers about Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman in the 40s?
For sure, the hipster term is from the bebop beatnik era. From talking to old jazz geezers when I was young i'm dead sure there were record clerks who would look down on swing or bebop depends on their preference.

Jazz snobbery very much did exist, some of them accused Glenn Miller of being the Imagine Dragons of jazz and others said only Dixieland jazz from the 1910s was "real" and swing was slop, such people were derided as "moldy figs."