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The article seems to imply that "tame" music unlikely to cause riots is more moral than more raucous music. While it is obvious that music has a great deal of emotional content that affects one's moral behavior, I'm not sure if we want to implicitly support "tame" music over "wild music", so perhaps the last paragraph could be rephrased. [[User:ColemanFrancis|ColemanFrancis]] 01:31, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
The article seems to imply that "tame" music unlikely to cause riots is more moral than more raucous music. While it is obvious that music has a great deal of emotional content that affects one's moral behavior, I'm not sure if we want to implicitly support "tame" music over "wild music", so perhaps the last paragraph could be rephrased. [[User:ColemanFrancis|ColemanFrancis]] 01:31, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
:Hi, there. Good question, and I'll give you a straight answer, from one music lover to another.
:We both agree that music has what each of us would call "emotional content." If you saw my footnotes, you'll see that I found one to substantiate my statement that music does more than reflect emotions; it induces them.
:I also have heard story after story, taken from the [[police]] blotter and also making it to the front page, about rock-and-roll events that end badly. This is not necessarily true of every such event. But the last time we heard of a riot starting at a "classical" concert was the premiere of [[Igor Stravinsky]]'s ''The Rite of Srping''. I never heard, for example, of [[Eugene Ormandy]] or [[Leopold Stokowski]] starting any riots with any of their concerts.
:So now we have to ask ourselves: How and why do certain genres of music cause riots? Do they truly ''cause'' the riots, or might they ''make the atmosphere conducive'' to riots? Or--is the "wild" music part of a subculture whose members characteristically abandon self-control on certain occasions--such as when they are "getting into" certain music that they know will drive them wild?
:And ask yourself this while we're thinking of re-phrasing that paragraph you mentioned: why do the ''lives'' of so many of the ''performers'' and ''composers'' of such music often end badly? In fact, that seems to be a part of rock-and-roll that its artists and listeners ''brag'' about. I recall a [[motion picture]] that was all about a young rock-and-roll bandleader who drove his car off a bridge into a creek, while he was working on a rock-and-roll version of the [[Faust]] story. Maybe you remember the title: ''Eddie and the Cruisers''.
:Hm-m-m-m. Lots of Eddies out there, or so it seems to me. Think maybe their music has something to do with it? Not so much one exposure as a steady diet, day after day after day? Or as a doctor might say, not an ''acute'' effect but a ''chronic'' one?
:Before this day is out, I'm going to take another look at that paragraph and think about a rewrite. But I'd like ''you'' to think about it, too, and to think about what I said above, in deciding how you would advise me.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 10:50, 27 March 2007 (EDT)