response 12 of 23:

Feb 22 22:31 UTC 2003

I meant to paste in this NY Times link earlier; it'll go into the 
pay archive tonight.  :/  Maybe somebody stuck it on Usenet or somewhere
else where Google might find it.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/arts/16ROSE.html?pagewanted=print&positio
n=top
"Singing to the Grown-Ups, and Selling"   by Jody Rosen
 
The essay argues, in effect, that we boomers have become our parents,
with our attitudes towards hip-hop recapitulating our parents'
attitudes towards rock. 

The article charges that the aging boomers, who are rallying around
an idea of "authenticity," are mostly listening to pretty boring
music.  Norah Jones is the artist most criticized in the piece.
The author doesn't say it in these words, but the argument is 
essentially that we have recreated our version of the old boring
Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary music which our parents 
listened to in their mature years, while all the artistic action
is happening in hip hop.