Newspaper Article Analysis
Title: “Official: Radiohead makes kids think of death (and ice cream)
– NME
The article focuses on childrens perceptions of music by Radiohead who
are known for being a depressive band but others say ‘creative
geniuses.’ If the media changes trends and perceptions then what
effect can one bands’ songs have on an individual. ‘Those social
stimuli that are the products of the behaviour of other people
essentially constitute culture.’ As stated by Segall, culture relates
to perception and generalisation of this can depend on age, wealth and
country. The children, aged ten years old from California, USA
listened to Radiohead tracks and then drew their impression of the
songs showing what perceptions were created from the stimuli.
The children requested ‘Sean Paul instead’ but were told to listen to
Radiohead so forced compliance (Festinger and Carlsmith) may have
caused them to cognitively ‘switch off’ and draw anything which is why
pictures such as ‘Aliens, church organs and McDonalds fries’ were
created. The negativity of the situation by not being allowed their
music may have caused dissonance as the children try to make sense of
the consequences and the effect on their arousal level (Cooper and
Fazio.)
These children were used as they are “the best way to get honest
reactions” about a band which already has strong opinions formed about
them due to media coverage. But the children may not have wanted to
get the ‘answer’ wrong so helping behaviour, echolalia, and
self-fulfilling prophecy were used by copying their neighbour ‘the
girl next to him starts to copy’ to try to get the answer the teache...
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...lain the one thousand foot ice
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References:
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http://search.britannia.com
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-09-17/music.html/1/index.html
http://www.lyricsdir.com/r/radiohead.php
http://www.thepowerofmusic.co.uk/directory.htm
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Mark was so confused and could not answer the child that the teacher scolded him, stating that this behavior was inappropriate. Mark did not know what to do.... ... middle of paper ... ...
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