‘It’s Music--Period

Let’s finally put an end to this “Is rap music actually music?” drivel (Letters, Jan. 10, 17 and 24).

I would guess that those who were raised on the church-oriented work of Handel and the Bachs probably questioned whether Beethoven’s romance-based work was actually music.

And then think of the poor bedraggled parents familiar with the lilting beauty of the works of Tchaikovsky or Strauss. I wonder what they thought of their children’s musical tastes when they started listening to Prokofiev or (gasp) Mahler.

If the efforts of Picasso and Pollock qualify as art, the work of Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J is music.

EARL EAGER ALBERT

Temple City