The PRogression Of Violence In MUsic

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apparent that music has the power of influence, for the act of listening indirectly takes the listener away from other activities. The Parents Music Resource Center reports that American teenagers listen to an estimated 10,500 hours of rock music between the 7th and 12th grades alone - just 500 hours less than they spend in school over twelve years. It is clear that their listening time could be put towards other productive means, but the listener chooses to listen rather than engage in other activities. The frequency of exposure to music may create immediate or long-term effects. Immediate responses encompass emotional reactions during listening, and respective repercussions may take form in dreams or unnecessary excitement. The long-range effects concern the learning that is produced. One could learn from the song content, such as vocabulary or beliefs, and may result in the strengthening or weakening of certain personality traits including aggressiveness. Listeners actively ...

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growth and if used incorrectly, can be detrimental to one's sense of "peaceful interaction."Many listeners have distorted interpretations of the musical experience. One of the most notorious examples of such listeners involves Charles Manson and his followers. Their story began on the morning of August 9, 1969, when a Beverly Hills housekeeper telephoned the police to report a murder at the secluded hillside residence of her employer, Hollywood starlet Sharon Tate and her husband, movie director Roman Polanski. She had come to clean up the house when she discovered the bodies of five people including Miss Tate, who was eight months pregnant. The word "pig" was scrawled in bold across the ...

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