Morcellini: “Violence is the root of trapper success”
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17 August 2022 | 17. 15
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The sociologist: “Encouragement of marginal, irregular, often even criminal behavior”
“We must admit that the relationship between a certain type of pop music and violence is not an absolute novelty: however much the ‘noise’ of music has multiplied and also the space conquered in the society and in the wider world of communication, there is no lack of encouragement to marginal, irregular, often even criminal, behavior, especially in his American ancestry of certain musical proposals “. This is what the sociologist Mario Morcellini underlines, commenting on the AdnKronos ‘last episode of a long list of representatives of trap music, which saw the protagonists of a racist assault on a Nigerian on the outskirts of Milan i trapper Jordan and Traffik .
“There is a component of transgression, which even becomes the central point of the appointment with the public, especially the most youthful, less prepared and less mature – observes the sociologist – Often, this transgression, which does not reject even racism or violence, appears just as the fundamental root of the economic fortune and success of certain music, as in the specific case of trap, for a kind of perverse political economy. A phrase in John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ comes to mind : ‘evil be you my good!’ … “.
For Morcellini, “in this society, the exaltation of evil is equally legitimate, a coin in full swing, compared to the very rare, marginal, timid when not mocked depiction of positive values, to the point that ‘feel good’ has become almost an insult In this very weak cultural climate, we are witnessing a sparse overvaluation havoc and insatiable rights, emphasized in the almost total absence of the corresponding duties, as a political figure of the thickness of Aldo Moro “.
(of Enzo Bonaiuto )
