Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian
Oct 28, 2003 Uncategorized
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | How rock’n'roll fell out of love with drugs: “Young musicians today are more likely than those of previous generations to decry the harm that drugs can cause, according to research in America.
The study, based on an analysis of drug lyrics in English-language popular music since the 1960s, was last week highlighted as one of the few pieces of good news in the annual survey by the European monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction, the EU’s drugs agency.
The research, published by the University of Texas at Austin, explodes the conventional wisdom that popular music encourages teenagers to abuse drugs. The author, John Markert of Cumberland University, Tennessee, says that although there has always been a generally hostile attitude towards heroin and other hard drugs, teenage listeners today ‘are being exposed to more negative images of marijuana and LSD than older listeners”
