Violence And Music
...disapprove. The current generation has rap and alternative rock music. Many adults make the claim that some of this music causes violence, such as "Big Man with a Gun" by Nine Inch Nails (Palumbo 2). Some music has violent and explicit content, but a violent song, itself does not cause physical harm. Other songs of rap and alternative music have content of simple things, like cars or other materialistic items.
Children listen to music that they have access to at home or in stores. Until a child is eighteen years of age, the parents can decide what the child can listen to on the radio, the television, or CDs ("Bennett bashes..." 6; Palumbo 4). A popular claim about rap music is that songs reflect the lives of many African Americans (Medved 21; "Time to squash..." 33). A violent life is only true for some African Americans, but others relate to the culture because society treats many African Americans as if they are directly causing the violence. Violent music may possibly make a path for violence, but it does not and can not cause violence.(Mcfadyen 17; Lieberman 2). Violent music can only stir emotions in a person, and if that person commits a crime, then it is that person's own fault. For the song did not go into the street and rob a person or shoot a person opening a door.
This article gives the reactions of National Political Congress of Black Woman Chairwoman C. Delores Tucker, Empower America Co-Director William Bennett and Senator Joseph Lieberman on the topic of MCA releasing CDs that promote "violence, degrade women and contain liberal doses of profanity and sexually explicit language." Their main focus was upon the releases of Marilyn Manson and Tupac Shakur. Some music containing lyrics that m ay offend people is a good point, but a statistic showing the amount of new releases containing parental advisory would be stronger. The National...
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