it's really funny to look back and read about the Moral Outrage to hip hop music and how white people reacted and thought it was so evil cause i feel like for most people their mind jumps to gangster rap when they think of that
but that came much later historically
you go back and listen to the stuff they were really mad at originally and it's a couple of music nerds going "be bop bow, dance, everybody move, i'm the biggest guy in the room" and every white person for 12 miles around immediately thought they were in danger
The extremely fun thing is this is cyclical to a ridiculous degree
Before hip hop it was rock what corrupted our kids, them devils the Beatles and that demon Elvis
Before that it was jazz which DARED to replace classical music in big concert halls, oh how far has the west fallen
Before then it was *checks notes* the phonograph. Sousa of absolutely-exhausting-parade-march fame lamented,
There was a time when the pine woods of the north were sacred to summer simplicity, when around the camp fire at night the stories were told and the songs were sung with a charm all their own. But even now the invasion of the north has begun, and the ingenious purveyor of canned music is urging the sportsman, on his way to the silent places with gun and rod, tent and canoe, to take with him some disks, cranks, and cogs to sing to him as he sits by the firelight, a thought as unhappy and incongruous as canned salmon by a trout brook.
Per this article:
Sousa was concerned that recording would cause “social decline,” he writes, as people stopped making music together.
