Thanks moonchild, last I know who killed the person under the town hall light, it was a F****** school principal. And a singer died for it!

I think the remarks about singing perceived as a form of personal expression are right: it is part of this complicated strategy to redefine most things that used to be social (but which had individual, as well as collective, threads) as primarily self-oriented, so that they can then be turned into a highly wrought product, and sold to individuals. This undercuts community, and reinforces the models of self-interested consumerism that saturate our world.
(end of rant).
yours, Peter T.