Cooper, B. Lee. Popular Music Perspectives: Ideas, Themes, and Patterns in Contemporary Lyrics. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1991.
See chapter four ‘Education (II)’
“Popular music, a principle artifact of youth culture, gives a voice to a broad range of concerns, values, and priorities of young people. A careful analysis of scores of popular songs shows that lyrics consistently depict formal schooling as dehumanizing, irrelevant, alienating, laughable, isolating, and totally unworthy of any link with the Socratic tradition. To assess at least one measure of young people's perceptions of education, the authors surveyed over two hundred hit recordings that deal with some facet of public schools. We discovered strikingly clear images, few of which shift in emphasis over time" (48).
(Questia)
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