Stephen Dobyns's Loud Music

The novel is able to share how music is of great importance and is able to affect people’s moods and thoughts.

From the creation of harmonies to singing to instruments, music has been an abstract form of human expression. Although an auditory collection of pitches and volumes, musicians can manipulate the same notes and bring them alive for their audiences. The true emotion and energy that’s felt in music really comes from the player as feelings are transferred to and through the listener. This interaction between performer and the house is catharsis, the complete release of strong repressed emotions. Thanks to the musician, music has the ability to grasp people and cause them to sense emotions and feelings without lyrics or images even being necessary. Although it’s believed we can only hear with our ears, something about music makes it emotionally if not physically tangible. In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” a narrator certainly unaware of the impact of music invites himself to experience jazz for the first time. Baldwin uses the final scene of his story to argue that music has an effect on those who are able to experience it. Baldwin does this in one single moment by letting the fixed, practical minded, “well-intentioned” narrator experience catharsis from jazz as his growing, free-spirited brother communicates with him through jazz.

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

In passage one , author Jennifer James explains how music and objects around you can change you mood, for example perhaps you are at a concert and the singer is providing optimistic music listening to the music will soon make you and the people around you optimistic or if the singer is providing sad or angry music then you will be able you relate with that emotion and will feel angry or sad.

Music is the nonliteral sound which accentuates emotion and character personality (Sonnenschein 2001). The ominous and playful meaning is conveyed through non-diegetic music and application of presentational rhetoric in generic text. Instrumentation, chords, melody and rhythm are elements which evoke dramatic and emotional reaction through digenetic and music sound. Ti state particular meaning, the music is sassy and sinister for visual signs. A sinister meaning is present for the blood drops falling on the neck. The sign is a sound image and generic text mood is signified in the Saussurean analytical division. Image and sound together clarify and state emotions, meaning and events (Cook (1998, p.8)). Multi accentuate meaning is also provided which state the man’s ambiguous, mysterious, sinister and menacing character.

So, the next time you are listening to music you can think about how the type of music you listen to describes you and your personality

“My music will tell you more about me than I ever will.” The music I listen to describes me in ways I cannot.When people ask me to tell them about myself it has always been difficult. I have never been the type of person to talk heavily about myself to my peers. If you listen to the music I listen to you would be able to tell what kind of person I am. You could tell the types of things and songs that make me happy, upset, or angry, without me telling you. The songs that would play in my life are songs that I am deeply connected to. They are the songs that make my modes pull at 180 when I listen to them.

Sound is what makes everything come alive. From when an infant in the womb becomes familiar to their mother’s voice. Noise can have a great effect on humans, especially music. Music can speak louder than words, particularly in certain situations where they may not be able to express what they are feeling. It is incredible how many sounds and voices put together can have a special connection to emotions, and bring back memories. Music is a language everyone can understand and relate to. Poet Rachel M. Harper, uses the idea of music to let readers into her childhood. Harper dedicated the poem to her father, who has a significant part in her life, since he is the only parent she has left.

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” (Brainy Quote) This quote is true to its audience because music definitely expresses words that can’t be said, also people always respond differently to lyrics of a song than to normal speaking words. Music expresses itself in the way that words can’t be said. When lyrics have taken over the music it is metaphorically silencing because there are no words to describe the music yet, it’s impossible not to think about the meaning behind the words of the artist. This quote broadens the understanding of music but it also describes the feeling that people feel when listening to music. People in this day in age believe music is just for entertainment purposes but

First of all, music can change the mood of anyone, or anything. The change in mood that music can do is outrageous. There could be kids having a terrible day, and once they plug their headphones in, their mood has changed from zero to one hundred in two minutes. Music had the power to change the sadness, depression, and happiness in all people. To survive in a world that we live in, we have to have the audacity to let things go. When we make it home, and all we want to do is cry over a bad day, we soon come to realize that the only thing that can make us feel better it listening to some hard rock music, and imagining that you’re in a boxing ring with your enemy. There are so many moods, that you can go through in a

Thesis: Music is a unique form of sound powerful enough to manipulate mood, feelings, and cognition.

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 main function of music in my everyday life is to change or intensify my mood. I listen to music ritually whenever I’m doing something I consider ‘boring’ to make the task more interesting. Whether this be studying, cleaning the house or driving to or from university, music is always playing. Studies show that when people choose what music to listen to, that music acts to serve a specific purpose. In short, different music styles are chosen for different reasons depending on what effect the listener desires. For example, I listen to my favourite upbeat songs going to and from university to give me energy and motivation for the day or night ahead. It creates my own “personalised soundworld” in which I feel happy and comfortable. Walking through the streets in this bubble adds a sense of

Music has the power to change the acceptance of one to change the personality. Many people are affected and changed by music because they want to express themselves as part of a culture and through fashion choices they are able to create an individual personality which is unique and is enough to define the expression of an individual.

One direction that music research has ventured involves a focus on the interaction between personality and musical preference. The uses of music amongst individuals that have been experimented on suggest that, young people in particular use music for the purpose to create an external image to other social groups. By doing so, music may help individuals to realize their sense of identity by establishing what kind of preferences the cliques have. Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham have indicated that, “individuals choose to listen to music as background to other activities for mere appreciation or rhythmic accompaniment (176).” Also, technological advances in digital music, for example mp3 players and compact disk have made listening to music cheap and available everywhere and at all times. Today, people can listen to music while driving, exercising, studying, or working.