Jazz is still very much thriving, it's just something that you see in a more localized sense. Even still, we have jazz albums taking the internet by storm from time to time, so I don't think it's too unlikely for jazz to have another peak in the near future. And metal is most definitely not in a dip, I'd say it's at one of its best stages in its history right now.
I think that these days, the internet is preventing falls and to a lesser extent, rises, by keeping them more at a constant level because it connects niches and creates a more tight knit community surrounding the music. It's not so simple as a rise or fall anymore. You could say that they're in a decline because they don't tear up the charts, but with the way that the music world is today I don't think that's a healthy indication of the state of a genre.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
|