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Some Grudging Praise
For A Rock Education
Special to The Jewish News
A
re parents paying too
much attention to rock
lyrics and not enough to
what our children are saying?
This thought occurred to me
the other day when my 12-
year-old came home from school,
proudly proclaiming that he was
the only one in his social studies
class able to define "prop-
aganda" correctly.
"How did you know?" I asked.
"Flashing pictures on my sc-
reen
Shown too quickly to be seen
Does not register in my conscious
mind
Propaganda of another kind . . ."
("Subliminal" by Suicidal Ten-
dencies). ,
"What are you talking about?"
I interrupted as he rattled
rapidly on.
"You know. It's on my record.
The Suicidal Tendencies one."
Although I hadn't paid much
attention to the lyrics until the
Senate hearings on raunchy
rock, I was well aware my son
spent much of his time listening
to groups such as the Hysteric
Narcotics, the Butthole Surfers,
the Dead Kennedys and the Sex
Pistols. I was not, however,
aware that he was using the
songs as an updated version of
Fifty Days to a More Powerful
Vocabulary.
"What else have you learned?"
I persisted, bracing myself for
words I had neither heard nor
comprehended until I was in col-
lege.
To my astonishment, he rat-
tled off a whole list. They were
words I hadn't understood until
young adulthood, but they we-
ren't what I expected. They were
"good" words, an asset to any
vocabulary: angst, ego, anarchy,
coup d'etat, facist, superficial,
Agent Orange, anti-Christ, sub-
liminal ...
And, furthermore, he knew
exactly what each one meant.
I should make it clear here
that it is hard for a parent — or
any thinking person — to con-
done many of the lyrics popular
today. They glorify loveless sex,
drugs, sado-masochism, devil-
worship, violence, and anti-
social behavior. (And, just in
case our youngsters can't catch
every word, many albums come
with printed lyrics for sing
alongs and vocabulary building!)
But as much as I abhor and
deplore much of what these
lyrics represent, my son's words
made me re-examine a belief I
have long held: there is little in
life that is not of some value.
Our children, perhaps no more
than we their mentors, are fas-
cinated by the forbidden in
these songs. Of course, I would
rather my son listen to some-
thing more socially-acceptable,
perhaps Beethoven's "Eroica" or,
at least, the more wholesome
songs of my era like "The Pur-
ple People Eater." (Talk about
violence and Satinism!) But,
practically speaking, I know
that isn't going to happen.
Censorship is not the answer.
It would be impossible to pre-
vent him from hearing the
lyrics. To do so, my husband and
I would have to confiscate his
tapes, his stereo, his radio —
and even his friends. Where
there's a will, there's a way.
That hasn't changed since were
were young.
Ditto for a record rating sys-
tem complete with a large "X"
on albums with "objectionable"
lyrics. That just makes the re-
cords more attractive. The li-
brary where I spent most of my
childhood marked a big red star
in the pocket of each book that
was "unapproved" for pre-high
schoolers. Even in those inno-
cent Fifties my eight-grade
friends and I spent hours going
through hundreds of books, try-
ing to find the verboten.
Therefore, as long as these
songs and lyrics are with us for
the moment, what can we learn
from them?
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