  ...This music excited the young, who were quick to adopt it and with it the accompanying behavioral style elements, and shocked their parents, who perceived it as a form of protest against the existing order. The adult world reacted vehemently: rock and roll records were smashed or burned in public, stage shows were banned or interrupted by the police, and deejays who ventured to spin rock and roll songs on their turn tables were fired on the spot (Miller and Nowak, 1977: 303-307).  IF THIS HAVE BEEN A WHITE(HOME GROWN)MUSIC FORM WOULD THEY HAVE REACTED LIKE THAT. :rolleyes:   ...Settled society, in turn, reacts disapprovingly and condemns the young as well as their music. As time goes by, though, people get used to it and the novelty wears off, the fad wanes, and the situation turns back to normal. The same thing had happened earlier on with swing and the jitterbug and now it just happened again. Rock and roll, however, proved to be different. First, the music existed already as a partition of rhythm and blues, the popular music of the African-American community living in the ]marginsof American society. So, rock and roll was not newly created, but rather discovered by artists and music producers (Marcus, 1982: 12; Brown, 1983: 15; Pratt, 1990: 136; Tosches, 1991: 2). Second, rock and roll was not a fad. The music did not disappear after a few years of frenzy, but stayed on in constantly changing forms. It became a new music â youth music â and a cornerstone of a new culture â youth culture. The development of this culture was part and parcel of rock and roll's emergence. Third, the negative reactions to rock and roll did not fade away either and the active opposition to it remained â see in this respect the detailed account of anti-rock and roll activities by Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave (1988, part I).  YOUR COLLEGE PROFESSORS LIED TO YOU.:D   Yes, because they thought alot of the Rock N' Roll was over sexualized. They thought it encouraged promiscuous behavior in teenagers.