On rock music

"... rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire--not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored. It acknowledges the first emanations of children's emerging sensuality and addresses them seriously, eliciting them and legitimating them, not as little sprouts that must be carefully tended in order to grow into gorgeous flowers, but as the real thing. Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

--Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Not sure if all rock music is all about sex (the beat sure is) but one thing I'm sure is that our undergrads don't read enough. This book has been lying in the library since 1989 and still good as new.