The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world. Females and males, or whichever gender you associate with can be the big influential factor, oh how you view the world.() But how does music influence the masculine society specially? Either behavior wise or how music influences their lives growing up. This research paper was developed to learn what it means to be masculine and what is most often taught trough music. The music industry impacts its audience. This leads to the development of the behavior of youth today. Having access to music videos at an early age, and how growing up music impacts their lives. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocate composition, as through melody harmony, rhythm, and timbre.() That’s what music is defined to be. No one is certain when music originated. The music that became more popularize in the United States at first was folk music. Then it progressed into blues, jazz, which led to rock, country, pop, rap and hip hop. Which to the present, these genres are still in our lives today. This is all due to our America music industry. But what is the music industry? It is the involvement of production, distribution, and sale of music in a variety of forms as well as the promotion of live musical performance.() The most popular types of music for society, depends on where you live. All have their own genre of music the citizens listen to. The music industry also influences how men think of each other, and how they treat people. You can find in music a sort of representation of how “men” are supposed to act.
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Music sends men messages of what they want to hear. Men are portrayed to be a dominant figure. What is masculinity? It is having the characteristics or qualities associated to male. At an early age men are demonstrated by their parents how to act, but music can contribute greatly. Listening to popular music is considered by society to be part of growing up. A study with 100 fourth- through sixth graders revealed that 98% of these children listened to popular music, 72% of them on “most drugs” or every day.() Furthermore, it has been reported that children 8 to 10 years of age listen to music an average of 1 hour per day.() When the children start getting older that’s when they start listening to music a lot more. The exposure to some lyrics in the music industry influenced both children and adolescents. The lyrics of a song can either be positive or negative. Men are influenced more by the negative perspective caused by videos. Music videos are a way of visually listening to the song that is being played. …show more content…
Every genre of music has their own videos. The most famous genres of music to influence men are rap, rock, and pop music. In these genres the theme of substance abuse, misogyny, and violence can be promoted to men. The average adolescent is exposed to approximately 84 references to explicit substance use daily in popular songs.() Drugs, tobacco, and alcohol use, tend to be glorified in these songs.() Almost all rappers sing about drugs. For example; Lil Wayne’s song “I Feel Like Dying”, talks about drugs. In a form is teaching men that by using drugs they can escape their emotions or to feel anything at all. Misogyny can be learned through music also. This type of music has a prevalent amount of feministic oppression. The
Music sends men messages of what they want to hear. Men are portrayed to be a dominant figure. What is masculinity? It is having the characteristics or qualities associated to male. At an early age men are demonstrated by their parents how to act, but music can contribute greatly. Listening to popular music is considered by society to be part of growing up. A study with 100 fourth- through sixth graders revealed that 98% of these children listened to popular music, 72% of them on “most drugs” or every day.() Furthermore, it has been reported that children 8 to 10 years of age listen to music an average of 1 hour per day.() When the children start getting older that’s when they start listening to music a lot more. The exposure to some lyrics in the music industry influenced both children and adolescents. The lyrics of a song can either be positive or negative. Men are influenced more by the negative perspective caused by videos. Music videos are a way of visually listening to the song that is being played. …show more content…
Every genre of music has their own videos. The most famous genres of music to influence men are rap, rock, and pop music. In these genres the theme of substance abuse, misogyny, and violence can be promoted to men. The average adolescent is exposed to approximately 84 references to explicit substance use daily in popular songs.() Drugs, tobacco, and alcohol use, tend to be glorified in these songs.() Almost all rappers sing about drugs. For example; Lil Wayne’s song “I Feel Like Dying”, talks about drugs. In a form is teaching men that by using drugs they can escape their emotions or to feel anything at all. Misogyny can be learned through music also. This type of music has a prevalent amount of feministic oppression. The