It's funny but when I was a kid there wasn't a hyuuuge body of film and TV entertainment available because it hadn't been filmed yet so I grew up familiar with the stuff my parents watched when TV first came out. I saw the movies they watched and heard the music they and their parents listened to.
Bugs Bunny turned me on to the culture from the 1890s on. Practically everything I know about opera I learned from Bugs Bunny.
Young folks today have very little of that kind of connection to the past.
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