Great remarks...
Much of the music from the 60’s is long lost in our memories (ditto the 70’s). We remember the good stuff, or more specifically, we remember the stuff that generates the highest emotional engagement, which does not need to be the highest emotional engagement in everyone, but a high enough emotional engagement in enough people to keep the memory alive:
There exist great musicians and singers more than ever today, but they are marginalized by bad commercial products...
We have access to great Chinese music, Indian one, Persian, one Nordic Jazz, etc...
Music today is stronger than ever....
But medias are owned by few people....Publicity and marketing , fabrication of products, polluted official mediums...
We will remember great music in decades to come , not because we will listen to it on radio like in the 50 or 60, but because we will stumble on it using peripheral channels to access it...It is my case....
Commercial music of today is horrible... Uglier than possible...
But there is more great music and musicians now than ever...