Can Easy-Listening Music Cause Mass Suicide?

Can Easy-Listening Music Cause Mass Suicide?Since the Deaths of 11 rock-'n'-roll fans at a 1979 concert by The Who, some observers have made rock music itself the culprit for the tragedy. While the practice of "festival seating"--a first-come, first-seated system that encourages stampeding--was clearly at the root of that horror in Cincinnati, many social critics have professed to find a "death orientation" in the music as well.The fullest treatment of that idea is contained...