Viewpoints: Linked Rise in Violence to Music (Ny Times)

The article in the New York time looks at the situation objectively. In Colorado, police linked music and violence together because the crime rate skyrocketed when the hip hop night club came into the town. The police insisted that the gangster rap music was affecting the attitude of the people in the town towards women and violence. They think that the music brings a want for the actual gangster activities in the night clubs. This angered many people in the city because they thought otherwise. They thought that they were being racists against the kind of music. A local rapper said, " When two cowboys got into an argument at the saloon, went outside and had a draw, no body blamed the music that was playing in the saloon." When I read this i thought that he had a point. There is violence in any culture but i also think that there is a difference between having violence in your own culture, and spreading the negative culture to other innocent societies. At the end of the article is does state that the authorities found that after they spoke about the gang rap violence link, there had been a drop of attendance to the rapper events, dropping to 200 from 700. When people realize that what their listening to is vulgar and unattractive, many will stop wanting to live that thug life or even listen to the music. I find it so interesting that many times, the messages aren't even listened to by the listeners but they are desensitized by the lyrics without even realizing it. When the people do realize this then they decide to move away from it.