Same Old Song Monika Cassel writer for The New York

writer for The New York Times and editor-in-chief of the Long Island Press

In this child-friendly and authoritative guide

Metz draws on interviews

In an effort to call special attention to this urgent problem

and popular perceptions of those realities

Same Old Song Monika Cassel writer for The New YorkPopular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh music. Many young people incorporate their devotion to new artists and styles into their own developing personalities. However, if popular music is a genre meant for the youthful, what are listeners to make of the widespread sampling of music from