[alyasa]

The thing about most music revolutions and major movements is that they are mostly reactionary, especially in relation to their environment and social climate. I agree that any demographic can produce good art and music, it is absolutely unnecessary to rely on your personal strife and struggle to create good and meaningful art that can speak to people. But; on the other hand; the really significant, socially-liberating music movements and revolutions have mostly, in the main, been initiated and cultivated in the streets, the sidewalks and under the bridges, among the disaffected, the homeless, the unemployed, the desperate. Rarely has there been an upper-middle class, suburban kid who has managed to create art or music that has spoken to the world as plaintively or as emotionally as the art or music from the kid who dropped out of school, living on the streets. Unless, of course, you count Eminem...