Your teenage years are the most crucial in the human process of aging. It is during these years that you begin to learn who you will eventually become, how to become it, and what will influence your process in the midst of it all. As unbelievable as it may sound, the things that a human learns in their teenage years remain with them into adulthood. Whether they flourish from their teenage ways or not, those years will remain an eternal and memorable moment throughout their life. Most teenagers in this time and era allow music to influence their lives more than their parents. Music positively and negatively affects teenagers emotional state, how they physically interact with their opposite sex, and how they deal with situations in their lives. Music is a moral law that governs the soul. It has no age limit nor emotional restraints. Although teenagers like to view themselves as independent thinkers, music plays a major role on their positive and negative behavior. Many theories on how music can affect teens have been made, such as: Reflection rejection, drive reduction, and excitation-transfer. Reflection rejection suggest that music is only looked upon, or into in this case, as a mirror of a teen’s life. (Gardstrom 2). It suggest that music does not create emotions, feelings, or even a personality that does not initially exist. This theory challenges people to believe that music to teens are nothing but a mere diary of who they are and that negative behavior does not come from music but from the teen. Anything negative was created from within, whereas the teen ultimately chooses what they consume through their ears which is soon planted into their brain. Music does not determine behavior, instead inner characteristi... ... middle of paper ... ...o express themselves Works Cited Gardstrom, Susan C. Music exposure and criminal behavior: Perceptions of juvenile offenders. Journal of music Therapy 36.3 (1999): 207-227 Johnson, James D., et al. Differential gender effects of exposure to rap music on African American adolescent’s acceptance of teen dating violence. Sex Roles 33.7-8 (1995): 597-605. Kemper, Kathi J., and Suzanne C. Danhauer. Music as therapy. Southern medical journal 98.3 (2005): 282-288 McFerran, Katrina, Melina Roberts, and Lucy O’Grady. Music therapy with bereaved teenagers: A mixed methods perspective. Death Studies 34.6 (2010): 541-565 Baker, Felicity, and William Bor. Can Music Preference Indicate Mental Health Status in Young People? Australasian Psychiatry 16.4 (2008): 284-288. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Apr. 2014 Storr, Anthony. Music and the mind. Free Press, 1992.
This article is titled “Rap music is harmful to African American communities” and is written by E. Faye Williams. Williams is a chairwoman of the National Congress of Black Women (NCBW). The national congress of black women is a non-profit organization dedicated to the educational, political, economic, and cultural development of African American women and their families. Williams’s article “Rap music is harmful to African American communities” makes her qualified and a credible source to be writing on this question: If rap music and other media is harming the African American community? In her article, she states her side of the argument of how rap music and media are indeed harming the African American community, using the context, and reasoning,
...des. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Link Between Rap Music and Youth Crime and Violence: A Review of the Literature and Issues for Future Research." Justice Professional 11 (Feb. 1999): 339. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.
Wingood, G. M., R. J. DiClemente, J. M. Bernhardt, K. Harrington, S. L. Davies, A. Robillard, and E. W. Hook. "A Prospective Study Of Exposure To Rap Music Videos And African American Female Adolescents' Health." American Journal of Public Health 93.3 (2003): 437-439. Print.
Music plays a major role in life for most people. It can soothe and excite, encourage sleep and encourage dancing, we can sing to it and ponder it. There are so many different uses of music and so many mediums through which to play it such as Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Beyond that, more songs every day there are new songs being written. Statistics show that ninety-five percent of all Americans think that music is a core part of a balanced and well-rounded education. The same study showed that ninety-three percent of Americans thought music belonged in the public schooling system, and seventy-nine percent even suggested that music education should be mandatory for all students. Still, studies show that a staggering twenty percent of high school students choose
Studies have demonstrated that certain sorts of rock music can heighten feelings. This means youth and adolescents who are inclined to negative, fierce, or depressive contemplations are more prone to have these sentiments (and follow up on them). By the same accord, youngsters who are characteristically content and happy are more averse to have the negative verses in specific tunes influence them in any capacity. To them, it’s simply entertainment (Kwan,
Teenagers have for long been a constant bother to many parents, for many years. It is during this stage that a large number of individuals engage in rebellious acts and are anxious to try out almost everything they lay their hands on. It is clear from the illustrations that music does have a great effect on teenagers. Parents should therefore combine effort in instilling a sense of responsibility and good morals to their young ones since they are the future leaders of the world.
There have always been discussions of the effects music has on ones behavior, and how it’s related to Psychology. The truth has never really been verified among common knowledge, but it’s usually something that intrigues people. They say heavy metal and rap can make teenagers violent, sad and depressing music can make teenagers sad and depressed, and some say it’s best to listen to classical music when doing schoolwork because it makes your brain more active. There have been many people that reported how music has effects on their behavior. It can lift their mood, “fuel the fire” when they’re angry, or even make it easier for them to fall asleep. People never really get the chance to research the actual science of music, and how it changes people attitudes.
Often times throughout history and in today’s world, music along with lyrics of songs and musical artists are blamed for deviant behavior in adolescents and teenagers. Some argue that subcultures are created because of artists and their music which leads to groups of young adults taking part in deviant behavior, while others argue the opposite; that the behavior leads the person to listen to the music. There is also concern about the effect that music videos have on the behaviors of the listeners of music throughout all genres. Although there is not much extended research on music and the effect it has on its listeners there is plenty of speculation, theories, and minor studies.
Music is one of the few things that has remained constant through the centuries this world has existed. Not only does music provide entertainment, it also has several effects linked to it. Music allows emotions of happiness and sadness to arise. From those emotions, physical effects, negative or positive, can occur. Music has a profound effect on the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical aspects of a person.
Franz Liszt once said "Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. If music has one advantage over the other media through which a person can represent the impressions of the soul, it owes this to its supreme capacity to make each inner impulse audible without the assistance of reason. Reason, after all, is restricted in the diversity of its means and is capable only of confirming or describing our affections, not of communicating them directly in their full intensity. To accomplish this even approximately, reason must search for images and comparisons. Music, on the other hand, presents at once the intensity and the expression of feeling. It is the embodied and intelligible essence of feeling, capable of being apprehended by our senses. It permeates them like a dart, like a ray, like a mist, like a spirit, and fills our soul." Music has been passed down from generation to generation to show an audience beauty and associate with their emotions. My violin teacher Brunilda Myftaraj once stated that I could play violin all day without ending and I would feel empty, she advised that unless I connect with my audience than the music I’m playing has no exquisiteness and means nothing to no-one. My teacher said a respectable performance is one in which the audience is drawn into the beauty of the playing and adores the music so much that they effortlessly remember the music performed. For my capstone I wanted to answer the question on how 2 different types of music can affect the memory of teenagers and young adults. The majority of studies done by the University’s and non-profit organizations all ask how music affects memory of ...
McWhorter, John. “Rap Music Harms the Black Community.”Popular Culture. Ed. John Woodward. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, 2005. 53-59.
There is a direct relationship between what is portrayed in music and the effect it has on its audience. Generally speaking, in modern music, woman have been placed in a certain mold. The molds portrayed in music have caused women to have negative self-perception. Through the lyrics presented in the songs and the images portrayed in the music videos, certain hip-hop songs may cause women to view themselves in the same light portrayed in the songs. The tone, lyrics, and images presented in the songs effect the intended audiences immensely. Hip hop music that objectifies black women negatively affects their self-perception because they view themselves as commodities.
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Music has been important for human civilization for hundreds of years. People have used music to benefit themselves in many positive ways. As a result, it has helped to transcend language barriers between different cultures. It has given people a more common understanding of each other. Music communicates to just about everybody in some way. As someone who has listened to many various forms of music, I believe that I understand why music should be a part of everybody’s life: music works well as a bonding tool to make new friends, it stimulates the creative process in people, and is the perfect way to help lower stress in people’s lives.
Music has incredible effects on the brain and body! Ever since the beginning of time, music has been around. It can influence the way a person thinks and behaves, and also social interactions. Teens are more susceptible to this (Revatto 1). Music can be used in therapy by helping people with depression, and can even be a more natural way to heal the body (“How Music...” 1). In some cases, songs and melodies can help or make diseases worse. Music is a powerful thing and can affect your brain and many other things in your body in numerous ways.