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By Jane Caro, published 16/12/2005Jane Caro concludes tensions between parents and children remain unchanged and the same goes for the music.
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A pianist mother who played the greats of tin pan alley like Fats Waller,with a thumping stride style entertained our family in the before T.V. era with sing alongs around the piano.
The big band music of The Dorsey brothers, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Duke Ellington,Louis Armstrong,carried me through my teenage Ballroom dancing years with an appreciation of music that has developed to appreciate a wide variety of music up until the mid 60's when I switched off..head banging,Punk and rock.
My response has been to introduce them to Tommy Emmanuel, James Morrison, Birelli Legrande,Django Rheinhard, Bob Barnard, Graeme Bell,My kids have a liking for the music of their era and look like needing hearing aids in later years but they have been exposed to some really great music of my era which in my observation has overcome the tensions between the generations. They have grown without becoming vandals or social misfits, they didn't join gangs or engage in socially unacceptable behaviour. They are not racist or bigots and they are not on the dole. What more can I say.....I'm proud of them. I think they are decent human beings, an asset to society.