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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

"Good Old Days":

Between What is Right and What

is Art
Farah Mahmoud Elmelegy - Level 3 - Economics, Farah.elmeligy2019@feps.edu.eg
Mariam Ahmed Mahmoud - Level 3 - Political Science, Maryam.ahmed2019@fep.edu.eg

Everything around us changes with the flow of time:
people, places, tastes, even ideas and beliefs. Whether
this change is for the better or for the worse, it is a
change nevertheless. Even in our daily lives, we can
observe a very clear intellectual gap between generations
embodied in how different music tastes are now from
back then. Therefore, we decided to start a discussion
between the two poles about the evolution of music in
order to explore generational differences. We met, on
behalf of the students and professors from the Faculty of
Economics and Political Science, with Dr. Osama Saleh,
assistant professor at the Political Science Department,
and a sample of students in order to represent the youth's Then we wondered if their preferences had evolved over
side and to visualize how different generations think. time. The professor assured us that his preferences had
not changed over the years. He enjoys listening to artists
To learn about the disparities in music tastes between he grew up listening to, such as Amr Diab, Ali El-
generations, we began by asking about their favorite Haggar, and their contemporaries from the 1980s and
artists and the music genre they prefer most. Dr. Osama 1990s. He occasionally listens to classic artists like Farid
Saleh stated that his favorite singer is Ali Al-Haggar and al-Atrash, Abdel Halim Hafez, Umm Kulthum, and
that he mainly enjoys listening to classical music. The Fairouz. On the other hand, when we asked the students
students, however, listen to various genres of music and if their musical tastes had changed, they responded
do not prefer a single artist; their listening to a specific positively, indicating that their tastes have indeed
type of music is based on their mood rather than a changed. When they were younger, they generally
preference, as they like to listen to old music or Arabic listened to music that was popular among young people,
hip hop at instances, foreign music at other times, and but they have since begun exploring other sorts of
even Egyptian rap songs or "Mahraganat". modern music, such as 'rap', and discovering genres of

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