Research: Does Music Classified As Violent People

Music can be a reflection of our life experiences. Each genre of music invokes different emotions and reactions in its listeners. Rap has become a very popular genre of music. As its popularity has increased, some people have questioned whether it can trigger violence in teens. While some rap songs do have violent lyrics, there is no direct evidence that rap music provokes violence in teenagers.

A second reason how rap music is the source of violence is that is leads youth to join in gangs and when you’re in a gangs your causing violence by killing innocent people for money and creating shootings in communities. Rap music is the one type of music that talks about life being in a gang and when young people listen to the lyrics from their favorite rapper they might think it well be cool if they do the same thing or maybe how it would feel to being a gang earning money by themselves, getting nice things from being in a gang just like their favorite rapper did. In a song called ‘My Hood” by Gucci Mane, there have been some kids wanting to from hoods because of the things he say. “First you get the money then you get the power,” this is

According to anyone you ask, I am probably one of the least violent person to know. I have befriended many people who share the same musics interests as myself and are just as nerdy and as I am and they would never hurt a fly. When people first meet me, they are actually really surprised when they hear I am a rap fan. They tell me straight up, usually when they think of a rap fan, they think of someone who is laid back, someone who really doesn’t care about anything, and someone who is rebellious. When people get to know me, they realize that I am none of those

The CWA (or Concerned Women for America) released an article named "Music's Deadly Influence" in August 3, 1999. The article was released when the music industry would be at a peak in its involvement within society. The TV had channels for music, CD players and various walkmans were top selling, and music could be acquired anywhere including the internet. The intention of this article was to serve as a general warning to parents and various other authority figures about the music industry and its effect on youth. The article was released under the CWA, which is an organization founded on "action and prayer" by Beverly LaHaye, and possesses a reputation in primarily right-wing views in the news and in political issues . This article fails

As media blatantly perceives the Black community as violent, rappers try to capitalize on this to increase their sales. In another article by The Daily Wire they share that, “Blacks committed 52 percent of homicides between 1980 and 2008, despite composing just 13 percent of the population.” These types of numbers are shown all over every media platform. This leads to the stereotype that the Black community is very violent. Although it may not be an entirely true statement, many may believe it is. Although a music artist may not be a violent individual they may use violent lyrics to appeal to the majority of people that believe they are. This further explains that rappers will act as a stereotype because their audience believes in these stereotypes and that’s what they want to hear in their music.

“Heavy metal music has been a source of criticism ever since its’ birth in the late nineteen eighties” (Coss). Many people criticize this type of music because there is anger shown in the lyrics. Although the lyrics can be controversial at times, there is no evidence saying that heavy metal music causes violence. “Its’ controversial lyrics and harsh sounds have made it the target of much blame for psychological and behavioral problems in teenagers” (Coss). Parents of teenagers now and in past decades have worried about their kids listening to this kind of music. Most parents do not want their kids to listen to this kind of music; they are afraid that the music will lead to devastating effects in society. Another reason why parents do not like heavy metal music is that the music is extremely loud and ear shattering. Most people over

In life, music affects everything many people look at all the different stories of teenagers committing violent acts and have begun to wonder can violent songs make teens violent? With all the violent acts that music glorifies as of recently many psychologists and parents alike have begun to wonder why certain types of music cause their children and teenagers to become so violent. Because of the questions that violent songs raise and why teenagers have started to gravitate towards violent songs more than ever before. Some factors that could be reasons as to why violent songs have such a powerful effect on teenagers could be that: teenagers learn violence from their surroundings, teenagers can have a history of violence, and violent songs give teens a place to vent their frustrations at,

Music is an art forme that apears in evry culture in the world. For thousands of years its been an importent part of the human experiance. Music has been use as enertainment as a way to pass on storys, and as a form of artestic espression. Each person may have their own perference in the type of Music they like but most people will like Music in some form. Music has even been used by therapits to help patience with mental and phisical health issues and and acheived good results.

There has been a lot of debating on whether playing and or watching violent genre types can change ones behavior in ways, such as becoming more violent or something else that relates to it. Personally, I decline the statement that it does change ones behavior. This is because from my own experience, I have been playing violent games and watching violent movies for almost the total amount of my lifespan that had been spent, yet, I had not turned violent at all. Though, I am not the only one too. Another statement to clarify that "I am not the only one too" is true, is that due to the fact, most of my friends play and watch violent genres.Even though they watch and play violent genres, they are all mostly friendly. Violence, it is usually trimmed

Marilyn Manson is a musician whose songs are filled with lyrics that usually talk about murderous revenge against bullies. Young people that are in the same situation discussed in the lyrics will find themselves looking to the lyrics for help when dealing with bullies. Many children involved in shootings or murders idolized Marilyn Manson, “Five Wisconsin teenagers who had carefully planned a bloodbath at their school in revenge for being teased were Manson fans” (Jipping 76). Manson’s music provided these children with something to turn towards for support during tough times. His music had youth thinking the way of the artist and wanting to commit the same acts of violence to deal with their bullies. There have been many studies showing that many of these children committing violent acts link back to Marilyn Manson as they have all listened to his songs. The connection between the acts of these young people and Manson’s lyrics is that his desires of violence on his enemies ended up being the desires of violence on the children’s enemies. In addition, fans of heavy metal music are more prone to show aggression and violent behaviour. For instance, the band “Bloodbath” is a heavy metal band that focuses their songs on killing and cannibalism. This type of music usually has harmful themes such as violence, rape, and murder which can exhibit poor behaviour. These themes all find their way back to the common pattern of violent behaviour that influences youth to act violently. People who listen to negative or destructive messages internalize those messages more and listen to the lyrics in more depth (Jipping 80). Fans of these more negative songs claim to know everything about the song and its meaning and be able to connect it to their own life. This results in the heavy metal fans to act in a more aggressive way like the artist of their favourite song has approached the issue. As a result,

In the study completed by Fiona Malpass, David Havard, Karis Benford, Ana Costescu, Angeliki Sofitiki, and Donna Taylor of the University of Westminster, results show personality outcome of heavy metal listening to be “…stronger composite preference for the heavy metal tracks was associated with higher Openness to Experience, more negative attitudes toward authority, lower self-esteem, greater need for uniqueness, and lower religiosity” (377). They also state that “In addition, men showed a significantly stronger preference for the tracks than women. These results are discussed in terms of the psychological needs that contemporary heavy metal fills for some individuals” (377). This shows that music can also effect personality differently based upon gender. Further research was completed just on women with the genre of heavy metal by Milton Becknell, Michael Firmin, Chi-En Hwang, David Fleetwood, Kristie Tate, and Gregory Schwab who are college student researchers from Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH. They state that “More recent research, however, suggests that Arnett's position is more representative of females than males (Lacourse, Claes, & Villeneuve, 2001). The general assumption is that heavy metal music listeners release or unload their pent-up frustrations into the loud and intense sounds which they

I have chosen to write about negative music and its effect on human behavior. I will trace the history of this type of music and discuss some studies which point out effects of listening to it.

Beneath misconceptions attached to rock music, lies the truth. In a recent unpublished survey, results showed that the majority of people, a mixture of different age groups and genre listeners, disagree that rock music has had any positive influences that outweigh the negative (Do). Through lack of analyzing, many judge rock music without ever knowing the truth about it. Those that do not understand the genre may blame it for everything that is wrong with today. Rock music is not to blame for the darkness in our society; instead, it leads us away from it. It has many positive influences that cannot be seen at a quick glance. Not only has rock affected individuals but society and time altogether.

Are some more prone to committing violent acts because of the music they listen to or the way they were raised to view death? It’s rumored that individuals who listen to metal music are violent while those who listen to classical are boring. Icons like Marilyn Manson and Ozzy Osbourne seem to reinforce these ideas but is it really true? How do culture and religion influence an individual’s awareness of death and gore? It’s said that Siddhartha Gautama’s parents raised him to be unaware of death and at the first sight of it he ran away in search of its meaning.

The anger and the obscure tones seem to be part of it since it was born. However, in this modern society the stereotypes that link heavy metal to Satanism should already have been overcome. Indeed, it was more understandable back in the 1970s when it first appeared, while nowadays people should be able to see that it is a type of music just like others. Listening to music is not the cause of massacres such as the Columbine High School Massacre, which was certainly a terrible event and people should reflect about it, but it should not be connected to music. The real reflections should regard social contexts which may influence people, or the need that some people have to create turmoil just to feel