Heavy Metal Subculture: Does the Music Cause Violence?
             Fires burning out of control. Women being raped. No one around to stop the mayhem.
             But where you ask: Bosnia, or somewhere in Africa perhaps? Try upstate New York, at
             the Woodstock '99 music festival. The festival was supposed to be a 30-year anniversary
             to the original Woodstock in 1969, one that represented peace, love, and rock and roll
             music. However, the weeklong concert was totally the opposite instead. A tamer
             glimpse of popular culture now: thrashing in the mosh pit in front of the stage, from
             which security people would occasionally rescue a naked girl, her clothes ripped away by
             enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for
             the aggressively rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience
             to "start some *censored*." Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower
             and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment (Morrow). The
             only aspect, which even somewhat reflected the original Woodstock, was the music, and
             many people could make a case that not even the music was nearly the same. "The
             music wasn't a message of peace and love. There were heavy metal bands with hateful
             lyrics, and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit provoking the crowd with the group's song Break
             Stuff (Morrow)." The violence and destruction was so fierce that the festival was
             cancelled early, and police were eventually forced to arrest many fans and control others
             with pepper spray. But what was the cause of this violence and destruction? Was it the
             hard riffs and hateful lyrics of the heavy metal music being played? Many people seem
             to blame the combination of high-priced capitalist concession stands and the heavy metal
             music. It was hard to put a finger on what exactly touched off the messy end of
             Woodstock '9...