Having noticed the increasing amount of news about children and young people who're often accused of being directly influenced by their favourite music genres, I decided to shed some light on how exactly music can affect people - specifically teenagers within the 14-18 age frame.
Moreover, I would like to discuss and analyse the usage of two specific genres; murder- and emotional music (Emo music) as both of them are frequently used in the debate as to whether or not music enforces certain opinions on people.
In my fieldwork and for the discussionpart of the project, I will mostly be focusing on recent newscoverages of teenagesuicides and hatecrimes in which music have been more of less involved as cause of the behaviour.
Finally I will be reading and reviewing lyrics, musicvideos and attitudes of a handful of bands connected to the two genres.
I hope you'll enjoy your stay. Feel free to add, comment, link or alike to the blog. Feedback is very much appreciated.
Moreover, I would like to discuss and analyse the usage of two specific genres; murder- and emotional music (Emo music) as both of them are frequently used in the debate as to whether or not music enforces certain opinions on people.
In my fieldwork and for the discussionpart of the project, I will mostly be focusing on recent newscoverages of teenagesuicides and hatecrimes in which music have been more of less involved as cause of the behaviour.
Finally I will be reading and reviewing lyrics, musicvideos and attitudes of a handful of bands connected to the two genres.
I hope you'll enjoy your stay. Feel free to add, comment, link or alike to the blog. Feedback is very much appreciated.
This blog is very interesting. Music has always been the way-out not only for the teenagers but for adults as well. "EMO" is exactly the same situation as the "Hippies" in the 1960's, the "rockers" in the 1970's, "the discos" in the 1980's, the "Punks" in the 1990's, the ravers after millennium, and the "EMO" at the end. In a decade a new style will come to the surface.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for showing interest in the subject :) I never really thought of comparing these new genres with the hippies and punks.
That could actually be quite an interesting research project for future work - thanks for tipping! :)
Hi Nikolai. I personally agree with you but there are some things that i would like to mention that I had little difficulties with understanding. I think that Emo music is a big problem to today’s society and murder music as well. I listen to reggae music and I enjoy songs from Sizzla and Elephant man as not all their songs are murder music. Even though I don’t agree with them (on the matter of how they see gay people situation) they brought a lot to reggae music that would be real shame if they were banded. The problem is in the society these guys are from and the society behavior in this particular problem. The other thing that I was a little bit confused was the case of the boy killed over the Valentine card. I understand the serious issue this case brought up but I don't really see the connection with your topic. I liked reading your blog and mostly agree with your opinions. Thank you! Tereza Rehakova
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