So music divorced from its culture is music experienced in a vacuum. To go back and listen to 70's soul with the life experience of living through the civil rights movement, is experiencing 70's soul music in a vacuum. You can appreciate it, but you can not fully understand it. And music you can not understand is not for you. In general all music begins with people and communities making it, but when it gets popular enough to be highly profitable and it starts being produced by music industry people (ie. people not from the culture), it begins to be divorced from the culture and starts becoming a product. This can be the most clearly illustrated for me in Hip hop and Rap. Hip hop is the culture that surrounds the music genre of rap. The majority of Hip hop culture was cemented before any rap records were pressed. When they started getting pressed, then the industry started have more and more control over it, until it became a full industry controlled genre. Since about the 90's we have had 2 names for rap in the hip hop community. Commercial rap, which is done through record labels associated with the record industry, and Underground rap for record lapels outside the music industry. Idol music has this same division, but the history and culture is very different.