Can underground music affect social change?
What do you mean by social change? Social change usually happens when underground ideas become mainstream. Sometimes there’s music involved, like when Bob Dylan became the soundtrack for the civil rights movement. If real social change is to take place the music has to reach a wide audience, at which point it’s not really underground anymore. Music can effect society in other ways too, especially if there’s crime involved. The whole music effecting social change idea took hold in the 60s. While I don’t think its music’s job to change society, every big movement needs a soundtrack. I think this question is beyond the scope of this interview.
