Worst of all—at least according to one prominent critic—was the current fad of big band music. There is nothing surprising about this line of attack. From flapper-era jazz to early rock and roll to 1990s heavy metal, American pop music has been denounced as the cause of everything from rampant promiscuity to juvenile delinquency to Columbine-style mass murder. So it was predictable that, at the height of the sex crime panic, swing was condemned as the source of the supposed epidemic.
