Analysis

DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) -- There are a lot worse things in country music than your wife leaving you or your dog dying. There's stations not playing your music because you done gone and said some things against the president.

In 2003, a famous country, all girl band, the Dixie Chicks, went against former president, George Bush, and tried to slander his name by talking about what he was planning on doing in Iraq. They knew by doing that, the chicks would get plenty of air time, but that changed very quickly. Radio stations removed their songs off the track for those days due to critics and fans calling in and fussing about what they just heard. At a concert the lead singer, Natalie Maines, said that she was ashamed of Bush that he was even born in Texas. The Dixie Chicks were engrossed with comments on their un-patriotic work. Fans felt betrayed and even went to burn all the tapes and records they had of the group. That has been eight years ago, but by what you can tell is that country music not only talks about dogs and tractors, but targeting major figure heads.

"http://www.cnn.com." Dixie Chicks pulled from air after bashing Bush (2003): n. pag. Web. 30 Mar 2011. <http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/>.  

Table

The following table shows an experiment scientist conducted on different types of music. Classical and heavy metal music are being used to no music at all to test pain ratings. The test was used to test how much the heart would beat or how fast your pulse would get while hearing the music. The results of this experiment was that while listening to heavy metal, your heart would speed up; however, compared to classical music, your heart would speed up, but not as much as heavy metal. It was shown that classical and no music stayed in the same range. This can lead people to believe that rock is more of a dangerous genre other than music like rap and country. Knowing these facts and information we can go further into looking at why rock music increases pain and if it can be decreased.
"Figure 1." EBSCOhost. Web. 28 Mar 2011

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Internet

 
This blog is a good influence on mine because it can show how teens and adults use the internet on a daily basis, which can lead to how violence is in the media, and how it gets to people. All kinds of things can get cycled to the World Wide Web. Videos, Music, photos, etc. can pop up and be seen. Rock, rap, hip-hop, country, and jazz are all being seen everywhere and violence in the internet could also lead to problems.

Analysis

"Aggressive thoughts can influence perceptions of ongoing social interactions, coloring them with an aggressive tint. Such aggression-biased interpretations can, in turn, instigate a more aggressive response –verbal or physical – than would have been emitted in a nonbiased state, thus provoking an aggressive escalatory spiral of antisocial exchanges,"  -Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D. of Iowa State University.

Music was manipulated in the experiment at Iowa State University in which they used seven artist and let them sing eight different songs in three styles if genre; however, they kept the same violent meaning which showed in the results. Shockingly enough, test was used to see if violence was affected by any song, and what was shown was that all the answers to the question had a violent response. Also an interesting thing found was that listening to violent songs will lead to aggression but not aggressive behavior. This means that something else is affecting the need to harm another person. Could it be the environment they are in? Could the people around, before, during, or after the song that is playing affect them? In the end, the final result was that it is not the type of genre that causes violent acts but the lyrics that goes with it. Country singers lyrics with a hip hop beat, a rock and roll beat with jazz lyrics, or even an R&B artist words with or without music can provoke anger.

"Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings." Violent Music Lyrics Increase Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings (2003): 1. Web. 24 Mar 2011. <http://www.reversespins.com/violentmusic.html>.

Source #2

“We don’t want to broad-brush hip-hop music altogether,” said Lt. Skip Arms, a police spokesman, “but we’re looking at a sub component that typically glorifies, promotes criminal behavior and demeans women.”

 In the news report done in 2007, rap and hip-hop is a problem in Colorado. At a local club (Eden Nite Club) the DJ played a hip-hop song that excited the crowd that might have lead to a fight afterward. A lot of shootings and problems happen throughout the year and the police have assumed that all the occurrences took place after leaving the club. The author shows that he also is against hip hop because of the fact that any club plays whatever music he has or is asked to play, and maybe just at the time the song came on it made a fight happen; however, blaming one genre of music to force problems is not right. Hip hop is repeated multiple times in the article. Even those who were interviewed gave their thoughts about what happen, but hip hop or rap was targeted.

FROSCH, Dan. "Colorado Police Link Rise in Violence to Music ." nytimes.com. New York Times, 2007. Web. 21 Mar 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/us/03hiphop.html>.

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Think About It.

Music can be fun and an enjoyable alternative to listen to other than watching TV or on the computer, but it should still be monitored because of what it can do. Exposure to violent television can and does influence children’s feelings, attitudes and behavior; it is generally agreed that prolonged exposure to television violence is one of a number of factors which lead to children being more likely to display aggressive behavior in both the short-term and the long-term. If having to hear a word 14 times makes you remember it, and then watching a different act of violence everyday could really push a young kid to doing some unlawful acts.

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Source #1

 "developed into a furious uncontrollable mob, hurling bottles, destroying seats, ripping apart bushes, breaking and setting fire to instruments... This riot continued for over an hour before a squad of special police arrived to restore order."

(Rolling Stone, Aug. 22, 1975 p 15). Sometimes, this type of frantic behavior at rock concerts leads to killings. All week long before this carnage, Thomas had been humming a rock song about blood and killing your mother. Different forms of violence are on the increase in rock music. For example in a song titled "I Kill Children" by rock group Dead Kennedy we hear "I kill children, I love to see them die. I kill children to make their mothers cry. I kill children, I bang their heads in doors. Just kill and kill again. One study revealed that of the 700 most popular songs of "heavy metal," 50% speak of killings, 35% of Satanism and 7% about suicide. Some rock music composers preach suicide - sometimes through hints and sometimes directly. For example, Ozzy Osbourne's song, "Suicide Solution" advocates suicide: "Suicide - this is the only way out..." In "Suicide's an Alternative" the following is sung: "Sick of life - it sucks / sick and tired - no one cares / sick of myself - don't wanna live / sick of living - gonna die / suicide's an alternative." "Sacrifice your life and commit suicide. Educational psychologist, Dr. Hannelore Wass, considered an expert on death and dying, indicated that while only 17% of teenagers listen to music containing manifestly destructive contents, among the youthful criminals this figure reaches 40%. (Wass, et. al, "Adolescents' Interest" p. 186, sampled 700 adolescents. The themes were: homicide, suicide and Satanism. The very names of some "heavy metal" groups also known as "death metal," glorify death and speak of destruction. Here are some samples: "Blessed Death," "Carnivore," "Coroner," "Destruction," "Mace," "Malice," "Overkill," "Rotten Corpse," "Sacrifice," Violence etc. (Cf. Dave Hart, "Heavy Metal Madness," Media Update, July/Aug. 1989 p. 5)

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"Rock Music and Violence." OthordoxPhotos. OrthodoxPhotos, 2010. Web. 19 Mar 2011. <http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/readings/rock/violence.shtml>.

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Is music really taking over our lives? Everyone who has someone that they look up to that may be a music writer could try to be like them and whatever they do. That is why with the songs that are being made now can be a problem. According to Doug Reames (Author of The Effects of Rock Music) he stated that A 15 year old Tampa Bay boy filled his mouth with lighter fluid & blew it out of his mouth across a torch, like Gene Simmons of KISS, & the flame came back and burned over 35% of his upper body. Fear and risk is in most music and what if a little child wants to get a gun just because his favorite singer/artist has it? Then What? Do not let the media affect you!

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Preliminary link #4

http://mashpedia.com/music

Music is a free-form and art and can be expressed in many ways. this was created by Mashpedia to show what music is and can be useful to explain what music is in general and the different branches of music it has.

Preliminary link #3

http://mashpedia.com/Rock_and_roll

Maspedia collected some information on rock-and-roll and found out that it did not get its' own name until the 1950's. This information is helpful because it shows that this music was a little bit of every kind genre and maybe could be the worse dealing with violence and music.

Preliminary link #2

http://mashpedia.com/Country_(music)

Country music is explained how it was made for "hillbillies" and what it consisted of. knowing the origin and the natural flow of this type of music is helpful, and can be used to examine where the "flip" of subjects to talk or sing about in a song started.

Preliminary link #1

http://mashpedia.com/Hip_hop

The link above describes what hip-hop is and how it was started. The information was created by Mashpedia and knowing how hip-hop created can be used to see what happen to change how it is displayed now.

Wordle #2

The Wordle above shows all of what my blog is about. My topic is on violence in music and how it can affect a teen. Knowing mostly about one genre is hard, because I need to understand all of them to find a clear answer to answer my question. So far I have found many sites that support my topic, and also it is describing different music genres. The color scheme used for my Wordle can catch your attention. Scrolling down the page of all the red and black colors, then you see this purple really catches your eye. I did this for any reader to click on the link to thoroughly look at the word that I placed in there. Also the emphases on music and violence are there to show the main overall topic of my discussion.
  
Wordle. Web. 21 Mar 2011. <http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3300004/wordle>.

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Other Genres?

Rap and hip-hop now talks about violence and drugs and this could be involved in violence, but could other styles of music have the same affect. I have many of goals to accomplish; however, one of the most important is to find out that all types of music--hip-hop, country, rock, metal, etc-- that incorporate some ways of violence that is disturbing and is uncalled for. So is Country about tractors or murder? Is rock and roll about rebellion or riot? Or is Reggae about a peaceful life or about getting even?

Did you know?

   

In the life of entertainment, getting awards and money seem to be the only thing that is on an artist mind. Having that little one foot statue shows that you, the artist, has proven yourself to everyone and is the greatest. Knowing mostly about hip-hop, I understand how the artist has to change their style to keep up with fans and keep them interested; I do wonder though why now in their new music they have to include detailed description of hurting another person. One topic I know about media and violence is that, the only reason this started was because of hate for another person. B.I.G and Tupac were friends but had a feud going on about him getting shot so since that incident, the two would make a freestyle telling one another to watch their back or something bad will happen. This was during the late 80's and mid 90's and still today it is still happening. Rappers seem like they have to prove themselves to everyone and themselves that they are not scared so they do these ridiculous songs saying what they are going to do, but in the end they are truly ending a career.

What Changed?

With the increase of different types of entertainment, music and videos constantly spare the time for the young and juvenile adolescents. Today's music artist want to appeal to everyone but mostly the teens because they can become loyal fans so they do whatever they can to attract us to them; every topic to sing, rap, talk, or think about during the public enemy and flava flav artist were still in the game, has already been put into a song except the concept of violence for what it is...VIOLENCE!! Back then songs were meant to inform "the man" or any political figure about: How they were feeling, what is going on in their life, what hardships are keeping them from their ultimate goal, or even why they do not have food on the table. Now it is like the tables have turned. Music has shifted and now we listen to songs that give detail into harming another person or how they will make that person's life horrible. Videos follow right along with this subject because now in videos you have guns, blood, weapons, and maybe even someone in pain right there. Where has the need to show the world how bad you beat someone up be a topic of interest? So my question is, do the media today affect how teens are attracted to violence and why we like it? To go into detail about this topic my other follow up ideas are; Could it be by the type of music (genre)?, did this get worse by the years?, What type of media has the greatest effect (t.v., music, internet)?, did this interest for violence happen over the years or just our generation?, and could there be an alternative to listening to this type of music?