<p>Right you are, musicamusica, but that doesn’t make the depiction of any genre of popular music as an immature phase one gets “caught up in” and should “outgrow” to move on to more “sensible” or mature genres sound any less strange to those who love, perform and desire to make their living in pop genres. </p>
<p>To focus one’s view rock music in terms of drugs, violence or mosh pits is quite humorous. Reminds me of what the previous generation must have sounded like when they expressed their distaste for that evil Chuck Berry or sinister Elvis Presley.</p>
<p>To understand the folly of this thinking, we need only to look at the new popular music programs created at major schools since the OP began this thread in 2006. Like raddad, I expect this trend will continue.</p>