> -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Kenyatta Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2003 06:50 > > There's been some attempt to actually test this empirically....to see > whether exposure to rap music (or other "aggressive art forms" like heavy > metal) has an impact on how people think and behave. there's some > tentative support for the relationship. people listening to violent hip > hop are more likely to support violence as a means of conflict resolution > than people listening to non-violent hiphop.
The question is, though, does their tendency to support violence as a means of conflict resolution influence their musical tastes towards violent hip-hop, or has that tendency only come about as a result of their exposure to violent hip-hop? It's a bit of a chicken'n'egg question I suppose. Brendan
