|
I think that saying it's a root cause is highly simplistic. But equally, to say that, almost by definition, it has no link at all surely renders any cultural form impotent - whether for the power of bad, or good.
A group like Public Enemy would also claim that they were reflecting the issues of a certain community, but I doubt if they'd have bothered to release a single record if they thought that what they did would have absolutely no effect on that community. That it did, (even in the smallest and ultimately short-lived of ways) surely proves that music CAN have an impact on the communities it claims to represent.
|