Eli5: if we are able to recreate modern music (disco, pop, rap) and songs with classical instruments how come people didn’t make those beats or similar songs back in classical times?
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We can’t typically answer why people didn’t do a certain thing definitively. We can just say that the historical processes that lead to those styles of music being created hadn’t occurred yet.
But it’s a bit like asking why different styles of poetry were popular throughout the world at different times. There’s no technological limitation that prevented Shakespeare from busting out a haiku in perfect Japanese. And you can even write haikus in English. So, why didn’t he write any haikus? Well, I hope the answer to that is obvious – he had no exposure to that particular genre and, inventive as he was, was probably incapable of inventing it only with the inspiration of the poetic forms and genres he had been exposed to
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