Falmouth High School - Clipper Compact Yearbook (Falmouth, MA)

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Sox, Drugs And Rock Roll A Selective Look At Some Of The Noteworthy, And Not-So-Noteworthy, News Items Of 1986-1987 July 14th Fullerton, CA

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As Mick Jagger put it, It ' s only rock and roll, and now a study of the impact of rock lyrics on teens has reached the same conclu- sion. Sociologist Lorraine Prinsky and assistant professor of crimi- nology Jill Rosenbaum of Califor- nia State University at Fullerton surveyed 266 junior high and high- school students with a 40-page questionaire. In one part, the kids were asked to name their three favorite songs and describe what they were about. Of 622 songs cited, only 7 percent were per- cieved to be about sex, vio- lence, drugs, or satanism. Twen- ty-six percent were said to be about love. And the students couldn ' t even say what 37 per- cent of the songs were about- they just liked them because of the melody or the beat. One of the conclusions we came to is that parents are hearing more so- phisticated themes in songs than their children are capable of un- derstanding, said Prinsky. The Parents Music Resource Center, which spurred Capitol Hill hearings last September on the issue of obscene rock lyrics, is still waiting to see the study. But Tip- per Gore, wife of Senator Albert Gore and founder of the PMRC, was skeptical. If they hear a song on the radio 12 or 26 times, she said, it doesn ' t make com- mon sense to me that they have no idea what the song is saying. Prinsky, however, maintains that the study shows that as far as brainwashing kids for corrupting them, music is a minor factor, if any. - Newsweek. 14th Manhattan Checkbooks ready? Big wed- dings are back! Manhattan wed- ding planner Marcy Blum, who charges a minimum of $1,000 for 20 hours of work, arranges wed- dings in the $10,000 to $35,000 range. If someone tells me they have $8,000 to spend, she says, I tell them to go on a picnic. - Time. 3