[quote="Prof. Akers"]My grandson came to stay the other week, we got in the car and the stereo was on, he listen quietly for about 2 mins. and asked why this choice of music (drum & bass). What he found difficult was idea that you could like all sorts of music. now admit sometimes you have to work hard to understand why somebody wants to make this noise or that noise but if you approach things with the attitude -' you've got something to say and I'll listen and try to understand' then you mostly get what it's about - apart from jazz ........... that I don't get, at all, never have. There was a Jazz boom in the late 50s early 60s in GB, didn't get it then, don't now.
So, although I have my default setting I will try listening to some of the stuff that's been mentioned here, thanks for some new names.[/quote]
And now from the "xeno-perspective"
I was raised in India and pretty much filmy-music as it is called was what I was raised on. Indian Film music (before Bollywood became Bollywood) was an eclectic mix of all kinds of music, popular, country, folk, devotional, classical, western -- you name it, so perhaps it should be simply called eclectic!
When I was first introduced to Indian classical music it was easy for me to run away and rather fast! If I had the right coach early in life with a lot of Indian classical music repertoire, I could have been trained to be the fastest runner in this world! But there were no LPs or EPs or 78s (Hanh? Open-mouthed kids ask! C'est quoi?) or even cassettes, open reels or earlier media which had the jog-control stabilization built-in so the method would have been impracticable anyway to train a runner.
When later on in life I was exposed to western classical music, I took to it as a fish would take to water. Interestingly, after a passionate love affair with this music, I found out that Indian classical music was very sweet too, although without Ravishankar providing the bridge it may not have come easily.
Anecdotally, the same happened to me when learning jyotish. I had to take a detour into western astrology before I came back "home"!