connecting the dots...or at least spotting them

It's apparently american music night up here. Tom Jones played, then the Beatles, and now Simon and Garfunkel. They're still going through CD's. There's never a dull moment here.
Yesterday in culture class we discussed the 20th/21st century music scene here. The past 30 years have been a lot like America's: Protest-hippies, experimentation with electronic music, pop music and the underground scene that hates it. The older forms are a little different. Schlager doesn't really have an American counterpart, but for simplicity's sake I look at as German oldies.
What's really confusing, though, is that here they know American bands, Brittish bands, German bands, and French bands. It's quite a mix to grow up with.
I think I'm finally starting to grasp the indentifying marks of Romanesque style. We discussed wall paintings and mosiacs today in class. There's more Romanesque mosiac work than I realized. I'd come to equate it with the wall paintings like you can see in my photos from the All Saints Chapel behind the Regensburg Dom and Prufening. I didn't realize the Greecian/Byzantine influence, or the mosiac work was part of it. That really opens up a new angle on Romanesque as a whole. Hopefully I'll be able to connect it all someday. At least it makes looking at all these churches and chapels and cathedrals more interesting.