Cultural observer extraordinaire Chuck Klosterman has argued that decades don’t begin or end based on days on the calendar. He instead posits that they begin and end when cultural phenomena push the previous decade out.
For instance, in his book The Nineties, Klosterman argues that the 1950s really began in the 1940s, that the 1960s began with John F. Kennedy’s calls for space exploration in 1962, and that the 1960s and 1970s overlapped by a few months in 1970. And he claims the 1990s didn’t begin in 1990 but instead with the release of Nirvana’s seminal album Nevermind in September 1991.
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