The Effects Of Music On Our Country Today

This study works to examine the use of sexual objectification of women in music videos today. The primary purpose was to examine the differences between genres, specifically hip-hop and country. I tested the following; Women are more likely to be sexualized in hip-hop music videos than in country music videos.

In her article “The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto: Negotiating Spaces for Women,” Imani Perry argues that the objectification of women in the music industry is normalized in our society. Her purpose is to persuade us that most feminists who fight against the objectification and exploitation of women are ultimately colonized by the sexual fantasies of men. As a law professor at Rutgers Law School, Perry structures her text in a very effective manner. Using a general-to-specific organization scheme, she begins by outlining the recurring image of sexualized women in music videos, then presenting various cases of prominent feminist figures in the music industry.

Music is one of the most influencing media within our time and generation, especially Rap and hip-hop. Demoralizing women has

Art has undoubtedly become a decisive aspect of our culture; embedded in the way we learn and grow on a daily basis. Art forms such as music, television and dance dominate our society as an outlet of freedom of speech for humanity. The evolution of music has rapidly exceeded its original classifications, developing new genres with greater appeal to an audience, hence its influence on society has expedited. In recent times, lyrics (specifically rap lyrics) have been introduced into the court room as a form of documented confessional evidence, evidently challenging law’s authoritative nature. This essay will closely follow the genre of rap and its relationship with law, through cases based in the United States of America (USA). In addition, the trial of Simon Bikindi in Rwanda and Smith v The Queen will be used to form an acute analysis on the influencing factors of relevance, identity, freedom of speech and current constitutional law.

The Film Dreamworlds III examines the explicit nature and the objectification of women in music videos across music genres. A similar theme is presented throughout these various music videos as women are sexualized and exploited. In addition, many music videos display the domination and antoagonizing nature of a man controlling the numerous women submitting themselves to him. The portrayal of these images in music videos advertise and influence audiences to accept this behavior on screen, which in turn strengthens aggressive masculinity and the pornography of women.

Charlotte Bunch once said “Sexual, racial, gender, violence, and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” Our society experiences all of these problems and I would like to focus on the gender perspective in the 21st century and how women have had more of an influence in music than people actually realize. Men have dominated the music industry and business but women have been the underlying reason as for why men and other females have been so successful in the music scene.

Nowadays, certain style of music are becoming more involve in our society than others. For instance, the R&B and Rap/hip pop are now getting the top on the Medias. We will try to explore those music’s gender. We will try to understand why and how they are what they are now?

In a time where the world was recovering after its second world war, a great quantity of interesting events were taking place. The nineteen fifties was a flourishing time for our economy, since the U.S. was a world power. Accordingly, there was room for innovation in science, especially in the medical field. Also, mass leisure was common amongst the world, especially in the United States. This made music become a major influence in teenagers. Prior to the end of World War 2 in the previous decade, there was a lot going on in politics, and it was a very active time for the government, especially in a war such as the Cold War. This led to many movements, such as the Feminist and Civil Rights movements. Harry Truman was also the president that

From the lens of feminist theory rap music portray women to be lustful. Rap music suppose to be a positive influence on injustices and social issues, but the strong content, language forces self-objectifying and self-exploitation (Herd; 2015). This music genre also up spring off capitalism and patriarchy which is mediated through racism. Elitism tradition of African American which is also known as “Playing the dozens” (Herd; 2015). Hip-Hop music genre has affected young adults in American society. In Neena Speer’s study hip-hop contains violence and misogyny which are offensive musical lyrics. In this context women and men are controlled by a negative image of themselves. The significance of this this focus on how many of the themes that are included in the song most young black adults claims to be apart of who they are (Speer;2014). Greenberg, Baron-Cohen, Stillwell, Kosinski and Rentfrow show how preference of musical genre is related to cognitive. The main focus of the study was to get participants to report their reactions to different musical genres (Speer; 2014). In the article “Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media depiction of harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music” music genre was judged on a level that the writer picked and choose what material to put into the media. Music that was considered to be rap or heavy metal was projected out to the

The topic of femininity in pop culture is important today because women are still far from achieving equality with men socially, economically, and politically. Music is a huge part of everyday life and affects millions of people. The music industry is intertwined throughout many outlets of the media. From commercials, to television, to the radio, music is a part of everybody’s daily life. What is noteworthy about trendy music today is that the messages that the artists are singing about can influence the listener's behavior, even though they may not consciously know this. With many popular anthems being so influential in every aspect of today’s world, we have to closely look at the correlation between music and how this alters how people act in today’s culture. Those who’ve been closely following the trends in country music over the last few years have had a sense that songs that objectify and degrade women (“bro-country”) have been on the rise, but it was only anecdotal evidence that we could

Instead of trying to claim their lives and educations to get better jobs women are shaking their bodies in music videos. These music videos are “playing significant roles in reflecting, reinforcing and sometimes subverting the dominant systems and ideologies that help shape gender” (Shaw and Lee 450). By putting women in music videos both male and female singers (but mostly male singers) are sexualizing and objectifying the female body. They are making women dance in the background with hardly any clothes on. Singers like 50 Cent have women in their music videos simply for “eye candy.” They are just there to be looked at, to be seen as objects, not human beings. By using objectification, which is “seeing the body as an object and separate from its context” (Shaw and Lee 216) music videos portray the female body as a piece of meat, with no feeling or worth. By continuing to promote this objectification music videos are encouraging gender ranking, which is the “valuing of one gender over another” (Shaw and Lee 119) to limit women and “keep them in their

These elements of form inspired me with my own practical experiment. For this I chose to interview a young woman who aspires to a career in the creative industries about how she regards the representation of women in the media. As part of this interview, she expressed the point that women are more positively portrayed in the music industry now than they have been in the past. While considerable ground has been made in recent times, I believe that the representation of women remains overly sexualized in the music industry and wanted to deliver this message within my experiment. In order to do this, I decided to edit in clips of modern music videos in which women are overtly

This class is my first opportunity at exploring music through a broad and historical lens. Certainly I’ve learned plenty of information about how music is composed and what elements go into creating the music we have today. However, my favorite part of the class was learning about the history of American music and how it influenced culture. One could argue that culture affected music first, or vice versa. In my opinion, there are cases where both scenarios played out. In this paper, I will combine my thoughts with many of the details that we learned in class to show that sometimes music impacted culture first, and other times culture impacted music.

Music in America has been on the decline since the turn of the millennium. Recent popular musical genres such as rap and hip-hop have promoted sex, violence, profanity, and drug abuse. Artists such as Drake, David Guetta, and Nicki Minaj have missed the mark when it comes to good music. Music is supposed to make people feel something, to take people on a journey. In this sense, music draws a certain parallel to the trajectory of America. When times were good in America, music seemed to be good. Recently, bad music has influenced the mentality of American youth and made them unstable and insecure. Music that has a positive, uplifting message has the power to help.

The article I am researching and analyzing is “Conflicting Paradigms on Gender and Sexuality in Rap Music: A Systematic Review” written by Denise Herd. This article was published in the academic journal “Sexuality and Culture”, on July 1st, 2000. This article is centered around rap music with its social and cultural significance for youth audiences, all around the world and how it plays a major role in shaping young adults beliefs, intentions, and attitudes that relate to sexuality. But, there are very few studies that are worried on behalf of health issues. They have researched the actual content in lyrics in relation to gender and sex. This paper compares literature in relation to gender and sexuality involved with rap music from many different perspectives, a huge base is the feminism theory, along with culture studies and relations. This review shows that conflicting paradigms, come together in this literature and that very few studies are both strong and rich, these paradigms including misogyny or sexual agency . Research in the future should approach this hardship as well as expand on changes over time in how gender relationships and sexual relationships have been chooses in this specific music category.