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This question plays out in the realm of contemporary EVERYTHING. And not just contemporary- It's been happening for ever and ever. The "mainstream" has always freaked out over every new development in the arts until those developments either went away or became mainstream themselves. The powers that be freaked out when a few wild monks came up with polyphony in the early Middle Ages ("the devil's music"); when Liszt was writing chords that could only be played if you had an extra digit (or a prehensile penis); when Mozart wrote an opera in German; when Elvis shook his pelvis and had the nerve to "sound black"; when they caught their kids listening to the local erotic troubadour or ragtime or jazz or rock and roll or hip hop or