Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved

Author:Michael Medved [Medved, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-204620-8
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Music and Mayhem

The cruel and callous exploitation of violence is by no means confined to the motion picture business; the same savage attitudes turn up in every component of contemporary popular culture and, to a startling extent, they’ve come to dominate the world of popular music.

Brutal imagery plays an increasingly important role in the music videos released by major recording artists, even when the lyrics to their songs include no specific references to violence. A November 1991 research study by the National Coalition on Television Violence examined 750 music videos featured on cable and broadcast television, and found an astonishing average of twenty acts of violence per hour. On MTV, the most popular and influential of the major music networks, the situation proved even worse: the researchers for NCTV counted twenty-nine instances of violent imagery in an average hour of programming.

Most of these musical minidramas advance the same violence-is-fun theme conveyed in so many recent motion pictures. For example:

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