Music And Conformity

People listen to music for a variety of reasons. Some listen to music to relax in which it serves as a sort of escape from everyday life, some because they are a fan and follow a certain artist, and others because they can relate the lyrics to their own personal experiences. Whichever the case may be, music has and continues to serve an important role in people’s lives.

In Stephen Dobyns’s “Loud Music,” the speaker describes the differences between him and his step-daughter’s thoughts on loud music, which shows that music really describes a person’s personality. Throughout the poem the speaker explains how his step-daughter likes soft and more meaningful music more than loud music and their different music types shows in their difference in personalities and the way they see things. People all over the world let the music they listen to describe their personalities.

Music has played a major role as an agent of socialization in each of my 4 decades. I know and hope that it will continue to do so. During each period music has affected my personality, shown my personality, affected my perceptions and helped me to cope with growing and changing as a person. My Looking Glass Self has compared the person in song and possibly the singer themselves to myself to gain perspective of who I was at each time. I am going to discuss each decade with the thought of how music was an agent of socialization in each.

For as long as mankind has walked on this earth, music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes, for celebrations, for comfort, for sorrow, for relaxation, for sports, for dances, for energy, for learning, for sleeping, and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply cannot. Music is a representation of what feelings sound like. It expresses emotion and brings that characteristic out from within us; it tells us a story. Every generation has its’ own sound and different music styles have emerged and become

The impact that music has on individuals lives varies greatly from person to person and often provides a unique lifestyle to each individual. An author by the name Oliver Sacks talks about the unique cases that he has dealt with in the past in his writings. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and “Brainworms, Sticky Music, and Catchy Tunes” from Musicophilia are two articles written by Oliver Sacks, which show the relationship that music has on the mind and how music can change how a person perceives reality. The human mind is a complex machine and yet there is something about music that transforms a person’s thought process completely.

The reasons people choose to identify with certain genres of music are variable, but many are rooted in exposure through family. The age at which children are introduced to music is also variable in relation to one’s ‘family cultural formation.’ Turino writes about music as an identity marker multiple times throughout Music as a Social Life, and in both of these quotes explores why people are called to certain genres and how they behave within them. He states that early and extensive exposure to, and participation in a style will give individuals “the habits needed to perform [] in culturally appropriate ways,” ergo making them feel more comfortable within a musical style. But the comfortability isn’t all that matters; people are judged according

While many people would easily agree that music is an art form that comes from the emotional complexity and passions of human beings, Aristotle’s truth that “music that rouses ignoble passions distorts a person's character” is debatable. The claim that “the wrong kind of music makes the wrong kind of person, and the right kind tends to make the right kind of person” is a paradoxical statement that changes meaning and credibility depending on the reader’s perspective. While morality has been an integral part of religious music throughout history, there is no direct correlation that a person’s listening choices reflect their personal belief structures or that the mental health or character of the listener is defined by their choice of music

Being exposed to electronic dance music, house, and Christian music was a gateway to become involved in the admiration of these genres. Through religion Christian music was expanded in one’s horizon, and started to enjoy different classes of genre within this category. The songs in Sunday School, worship hour, and concerts depicts the type of content that one should follow. Thus creating the preference of staying afar from music with cursing, perverseness, and un-meaningful content. In addition, parents instruct their inheritance as well into the preferences one should seek, and being influenced as a child is what in some cases the behavior they will lead throughout the life

Music is something that is heard every day by billions of people. There is a vast diversity of genres of music out there. What compels people to listen to music? What inspires artists to create it? Is there more to music than just what can be listened to? Music is a complex phenomena comprised of symbolism and power. It exists in cultures all over the world. Through music people express emotions, origin stories, patriotism, religion, and more. However, music is not a stagnant phenomena. It changes over time as history, events, and people change course. Through music, people gain a sense of collective identity in which they can relate to others that share similar experiences. Because music has the ability to connect people and make people feel

In the article, Predicting Music Appreciation with Past Emotional Responses to Music (2001) by Robert H. Woody and Kimberly J. Burns, describes the reason why many young people may not have a connection or gravitation towards “classical” music. Many young people simply jumble up “classical” music into such broad category because they do not understand the many different complex components to classical music. They assume that all music without lyrics is considered to be classical music. This makes it more difficult for young individuals to comprehend classical music because they are so accustomed to simply hearing music with lyrics in it, but never fully paying attention to the other components that make up the entirety of the piece. In order to prove the hypothesis that young people did not have an emotional connection with classical music, they preformed a case study to get a clearer conclusion.

Music has played a vital role in human culture and evidence based on archaeological sites can date it back to prehistoric times. It can be traced through almost all civilizations in one form or another. As time has progressed so has the music and the influences it has on people. Music is an important part of popular culture throughout the world, but it is especially popular in the United States. The music industry here is, and has been, a multi-million dollar business that continues to play an important role in American popular culture. This is also a art form and business that is forever changing as the times and more importantly, technology changes. Technology has changed the way music is made as well as how it is produced,

With a great deal of different genres of music available for listening to, each genre must effect, shape, and allow for the expression of personality to be contrasting with each of the different genres of music that are available to us. In a recent study executed by Yair Neuman, Leonid Perlovsky, Yochai Cohen and Danny Livshits, from the Department of Education & Homeland Security Institute, based their experiment on “a very specific research question: Do personality types differ in terms of their essays’ similarity to the lyrics of various music genres?” (4). They set up their experiment to solely test whether a person’s personality can be directly affected by certain types of music. Their experiment concluded “…all results were statistically

The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.

Since I was exposed to music at young age, I was able to excel in school and earn good grades which guided me on a path to succeed in high school. Furthermore, it personally gives me the ability to channel my emotions and express them in an appropriate way. To this day the quality of my songwriting is not perfected, but my future is greatly impacted by this. Some may express their feelings down in a journal, I express mine through music. This gives me the ability to control my emotions in difficult situations and will positively impact my social interaction skills later on in life. Although music may benefit my future, music is more than that to me. Music is why I put my all into everything I do and it is the reason why I am the person I am today and the person I will be in twenty years from now. My interest in music has molded my personality and those who I interact with. Research has been able to show the positive effects music has had on the psychological well being of society throughout history. Due to the complexity of music, the variety of brain activity while listening to music positively affects the brain “ but also [helps] on long-term well-being when music is implemented in various life situations and contexts—including the family” (NCBI). The Social and biological benefits interact cohesively which positively impacts paramount skills from adolescents to the elderly. Through music, society 's future can be divergent and can create a world with

Music elicits an emotional and cognitive response in all who listen to it. It is powerful at the individual level because “it can induce multiple responses – physiological, movement, mood, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral” (Francis, 2008,