[Wojtek]

Not very long ago I attended very very interesting lecture about music of 60's, 70's and 80's. Before it started I had been sure that phenomenon of progressive rock would be mentioned. It wasn't. The whole situation made me a bit sad during that day but also inclined towards small reflection. What was the contribution of prog rock to the culture of the 70's?
It made and still makes me wonder - if we listen to to the unrealistic, out of social context genre, artistically snobistic music?
But maybe it's not like that? Maybe prog was in the 70's sth more than form of expression of the given, self-contained group of people? I tried to compare it with jazz, nowadays listeners of both prog and jazz are considered to be elite of entertainment music listeners, niche situation of both these genres is also similar. But whereas jazz carries tons of history and is a symbol of the certain period of our culture, really big symbol to be precise, prog....

What do you think, do we listen to the musical genre which is beautiful, but which is genre-failure, which as a cultural force turned out to be nothing?...