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Influence Through Music • A Clay Cheech Thing
Music plays a large role in how a society or social institution change, so in most cases young adults and teenagers are often effected more and stronger by such music due to those years of their lives being so heavily weighted with other types of change.
Era - Music • 1960s - Rock and Roll • 1970s - Disco • 1980s - Metal • 1990s - Hip hop and Rap • 2000s- Present - Techno
The 1960s brought a new age to rock and roll with bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones. • People reacted by involving the things the lyrics said into their lives and accepting this music on drastic levels. • Teens became rebellious and took action to change society through “hippie movements” and turned to drugs for higher thoughts
Hippie - A person who rejected established institutions and valued direct personal relations and expand of conciseness.
The 1960s inspired change through music, and mostly it is negative, due to the loss of family connections that the music brought and the false sense of happiness through drugs and what hippies considered “freedom.”
Disco brought rise to a new era that was short lived. Bringing the colorful aspect of the hippies, into an upbeat dancing music. • It won the hearts on many young people growing up during the early 70s, but older generations despised it. • Disco silently promoted cocaine and other drugs which enhanced your dancing to loud music with flashing lights. • Club life brought to light a new drugs known as “Quaalude” which gave the sense that your limbs had turned to rubber.
Not only drugs played a major part in the immorality of the 1970s with regards to musical influence.These large amounts of various drugs came to bring a new era of disco including public displays of sexual intercourse and promiscuity. • Any place possible such as bathrooms, hallways or even the street were used for fornication.
With the closing of the disco era, people began coming back to rock and roll and luckily morality was returned to most young adults. But history now has its records of how such a small musical outbreak can change people and society so drastically in a short amount of time.
1980s METAL
“I've seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use that man I've seen them crawl from the cradle to the coffin on their hands” • These lyrics by Megadeath symbolize a large part of what it was like growing up in the 80s. Once again, drugs became people’s life and mostly through the metal scene during the 80s.
So clearly, the 80s was much like the 60s and 70 when it came to drugs, but the music influenced a new type of “dancing” also. During the metal scenes, head banging and mosh pits became a popular thing. • What the people of this age didn’t realize is that they were creating a dangerous thing that would live on in most hard rock and metal concerts. • Research shows that head banging can lead to aneurysms and other brain and vertebral injuries. Sometimes even leading to strokes. Since this is dangerous to you, and sometimes those around you, it proves that this music influences bad things
The 1980s were very musically inspiring to many, and were based off inspired musicians before them, but in the end music did the same to society: it took vulnerable age groups and gave them conceptions of drugs, sex and rock and roll.
The 1990s brought in a new music that really wasn’t the same style that generations before were used to. • Hip hop and rap were at first a very modern thing to dance to and rap, in particular, became a well known way to express poetry in a new style. • But rap eventually turned into a way of making oneself feel empowered, and by making lyrics representing how tough you were, you were given a reputation.
Also, rappers generally came from bad gang related backgrounds which they would speak of in their songs. • This caused a stir in the rap and hip hop worlds where gang violence was increased. For example, the legendary rappers 2pac and Notorious B.I.G. were murdered due to gang wars and jealousy. • Vulnerable people have been dragged into gang scenes because of their interests in this music, and with these gangs recruiting people, comes drugs and violence. • These rappers play a role in most children's lives and since they represent such a negative and immoral way of life in certain cases, they play a negative role in society.
In general hip hop and rap changed many people’s views about music and have won hearts even till today. What is too bad is that it lyrically states proof of gang violence within this paradigm of music taking it to a immoral level.
This new electronic music has created another realm of style and interests. Whether its house music or dubstep it has sparked a love in most teens of our time but it has many influences on them. • “Molly ... She makes me want to dance ... Can you please help me find Molly”. Molly is not just a person. Molly refers to MDMA which is one of the most popular drugs these days. Normally sold in tablets, it stimulates the brain and gives one a happier outlook.
It tricks more and more teens and young adults into believing that the music is inspirational on a deeper level due to the drugs. • Lastly, as a Catholic school we believe that God is the only perfect being, and what techno is attempting is a flawless beat and perfect sound that is created by man, through a computer, but is another attempt at a perfect thing. This shows that this music on a certain conceptual level is immoral and degrades Christian belief without even looking at the drugs involved.
Music is a pure substance that all the humans in the world couldn’t live, and though we can see that it has played a major role in the negative changes in society, overall, it is necessary because it brings problems to society's table, and over time we, the people, learn how to manage a solution. The music then represents in our history a time of something new, the fall of man, and the gathered hope when the problems pass. So as each new music style influences people negatively, in the end it brings us together.
