Conclusion

The Conclusion turns back to the initial postwar examples. After the preceding excavation of the musical past, we can now see the ancient foundations upon which these later songs are built. It is not within the scope of this study to make a detailed exploration of the “Sweet Thing” scheme in postwar popular music, but consideration of these and a few other examples gives some indication of the increasingly wide range of genres that it enters into during this period, and of later popular music’s strong reflections of the past.