In my opinion, what we see can affect us as much as what we hear. A large percentage of what we watch on music channels includes videos that show things that society shuns: violence, misogyny, drugs and sexuality.…
A different point of view on this situation is that people claim music is a positive influence. Truthfully that is the most popular opinion in today’s time, but some people are on the side of it being negative. A few years ago this topic came to the surface after a radio host named Don Imus went on air [and] called women on a college basketball team, "Nappy Headed Hos". His remarks about the women set off a firestorm with people calling for him to be fired. He in turn countered and claimed that he made the unsavory remarks because he was “influenced by rap music” (Davey). By that statement alone it only seems that music is mainly a negative influence instead of a positive one,…
Music, a defining aspect of Human culture for centuries, is influenced heavily by the social institutions of the time. This can be most evident in “pop”, short for “popular”, music. Music is a demonstrative language of culture. It tells a story, conveys ideas, opinions, and emotions of life experiences. Music has the power to link generations. In recent history such themes include Jazz and blues, the Big Band era, country, rap, and various other genres of music. Each of these classes of music are drawn from and represent the particular culture and time of the background of the artist or the events that inspired it.…
Music has been another defining factor in my life in regard to my cultural background. Many of my friends and relatives listen to artists that they feel they have something in common with, whether it is rap or gospel, it touches us all because the artists are coming from the same place that we are. Music…
Music, a defining aspect of Human culture for centuries, is influenced heavily by the social institutions of the time. This can be most evident in “pop”, short for “popular”, music. Music is a demonstrative language of culture. It tells a story, conveys ideas, opinions, and emotions of life experiences. Music has the power to link generations. In recent history such themes include Jazz and blues, the Big Band era, country, rap, and various other genres of music. Each of these classes of music are drawn from and represent the particular culture and time of the background of the artist or the events that inspired it.…
Music is one of the biggest ways to influence people in the world. You can make music how, when, and wherever you want. Anybody with a microphone and a computer can make a song and put it out. Everybody, worldwide, listens to different kinds of music and interpret it the way they want. People look to music for inspiration and use it for motivation in their life. Americans are heavily influenced by music as it has become very important to the American culture. It is easily shown that teenagers are the most influenced age group in America but it is not as easy to see what social class is the most influenced. Focusing on one class at a time can be a great deal of help as I try to interpret the Middle Class.…
The pop culture of any area consists of many factors that ought to be considered when assessing the impact of any one specific icon. American pop culture specifically, has many symbols that represent the many different areas of pop culture and the preferences of the fans. Through an array of examples, the strong influence of celebrities on citizens of America can easily be seen through an analysis of the pop culture. The demographic, style, and behavior are three major areas in pop culture that most clearly show influence of major celebrities.…
Pop culture has made an impact on my life and has been a big part of my generation. I grew up listening to a lot of music and watching plenty of television shows and movies. At the age of five I had become obsessed with Spider-Man, Britney Spears, and Disney Channel. I listened to music everywhere I went and always sang along to the songs I knew. My mom gave me an Avril Lavigne CD when I was younger and around the age of eight I was listening to KISS. Pop culture became a big part of who I am today starting at a young age, but I have a better grasp of what it truly is now that I am older.…
It allows people to be who they are because there is so many different types of music. Also, people have the freedom to listen to any genre of music that appeals to them. There is many different genres of music. There is country, rock, electronic, rap, pop, jazz, opera, screamo, reggae, disco, and many more. The type of music you listen to tends to reflect what kind of person you are and what style you are into. An example how music shows who you are is the question “What kind of music do you like?” It’s been the bane of awkward first dates forever. People ask this question when they first meet a person all the time. What they are doing is trying to get a better understanding of what kind of person you are. Then, when we discover that someone likes a piece of music that we like, we tend to think better of them. Also, it can show what kind of mood you are in. If you are in a crazy hyper mood you might listen to hip-hop or a more upbeat song that will get all of the energy out of you. But if you are in a sad or tired mood you might listen to a slower chill song that helps you calm down. Overall, music shows character in a person and who they truly are by allowing them to be themselves and gives them the freedom to listen to any genre of music they want…
Selwyn Duke describes on his periodical about the power of the music influence people. He states that if individual can be taught to read with rhymes and songs, then he or she can also learn the same way what is wrong and right. He mentions how music can be used to provide a positive education, such teaching kids on healthy eating habits. But, the most intriguing is how music and culture has impacted the people. How it intrigues kids from sounds that they have never hear and from things that they have never seen, such as a young girl might get a maternal instinct when she hears the sound of a baby crying. As the culture changes, so does the music because each generation finds the last generation music unappealing. The author also describes how each style…
Probably the easiest person to classify and what they are listening to is, baggy jeans with their boxers showing, saggy t-shirts and that lean walk. They could also be rocking a fitted hat and really nice Nikes. Some people would classify this group of people as "gangsters" who typically listen to rap/hip hop. Sometimes the way they act or dress is a little different depending on which they listen to. This genre is the best example of how fashion really comes into play with music, artists like Eminem or Wiz Khalifa both wear baggy shirt and saggy pants. People have to get there style from somewhere.…
People do tend to adopt at least the attitudes of the music they listen to most even if they don't admit it. This is because a lot of people are not able to separate themselves from the ideas that are expressed. Music is different from other art-forms in that it penetrates the soul in a way something visual cannot.…
Pop music can be said to be always changing because the change from R&B to hip hop did not happen without a huge change like rock and roll and san francisco but when you say something is extreme the next generation will take it as the norm say when 80s rock and roll started making sex related music videos which was considered ridiculous today its everywhere my cousin who was listening to songs like stronger or E.t however her mom had no problem .One of the biggest thing I Seen arise is that it injected itself into our culture just like a virus from well dressed clean cut to leather pants and jackets and crazy cuts but it began with the beatles who simply got long hair. Or when KIss stated wearing leather and make up the youth followed proving that it was no longer anti-culture it was culture and changing america for better or worse.…
One problem in analysing a type of youth culture is measuring the extent to witch it is a response to a culture deliberately manufactured for marketing and consumption of cultural products. I would say to some extent all subcultures consume part of popular culture, but it does vary from which culture a person is apart of, E.G you can look at the Goth type of culture and think it not to be very commercialised at all. But I would argue differently, because Goth is one of the most commercialised types of culture in the world. The Director Tim Burton makes huge blockbuster films that have been filmed in a gothic style. So why is Goth not popular culture? The Hip Hop culture was discovered in 1970 's America, It involved a very unique form of dancing called break dancing, and was based on the genre of music called Hip Hop. Most people would argue that Hip Hop became commercial when the Sugar Hill Gang released a single called Rappers Delight, but I would argue that the Hip Hop style of clothing consisted of high street clothing, which in a way made the subculture commercial even when it was deemed not to be. My argument is that all of the subcultures we have are commercial but within the subcultures there is a sense of resistance towards commercialisation.…
I don't think rock music will influence young people in a bad way as such, and to be honest R&B and Hip Hop are more likely to influence people in such a way. But it's each to their own and people should be allowed to listen to what they want without restrictions such as different influences :)…