Can you imagine a day without music?
No? Yeah, me either. Music is my favorite part of the day.
The importance it holds is so dear to me. But what’s the impact it has on our
surrounding communities and world?
With the alarming rate of the monetary depreciation of music funding, have we stopped and look at the impact it has on us as individuals and our peers? Music not only helps people as individuals, but also as whole communities. For example, when students participate in music classes, the impact does not stop there. After class, they then have to use their own self-discipline to practice the music. Ultimately, they come back together as an ensemble and give the surrounding community a performance. Or maybe an artist works hard on a song they’ve written, it’s finally perfect in their eyes and they are ready to share it with the word.
Giving back to the community is essential in every good
citizen’s lives. Not everyone has the opportunity to give back in such a creative
way. But lately, much of the music that is dispersed does not carry a good
meaning. Not downing any types of music, just focusing on why we need to
continue to stress the importance of the building steps of music, where it all
starts.
Cultural Impact
Popular music represents today culture. It carries a meaning
that only we understand in a special way. For example, when our parents play
their music, we don’t always want to listen because we fail to find a
connection to it, it’s past our time. Popular music is a genre that is always
up for change because nothing ever stays in the spotlight forever. It
represents the world that is always changing around us.
Emotional impact
As humans we behave
on how we feel. When we exercise or party, we tend to use upbeat music so we
can continue to stay at an upbeat pace. Slow music often helps to put us to
sleep or maybe when we are have a bad day. Music has potential to change moods
in a matter of seconds. It has the potential to change whole atmospheres.
How much the average person listen to music
Moral Impact
Today’s music can often times coincide with many negative means often dealing with drug, sex, and violence. Although there is no research to
prove a connection to behavior, many people still believe it has an impact. I don’t believe it has a major impact because
there are many other influences that contributes to ones morals but I do
believe that as a whole, artists should work on music that sends a more
positive message.
Overall, just like how consuming junk food is bad for body,
feeding your ears negativity messages can’t be good for the long run. That is
why we need to focus on the building blocks on music education. When students
can experience the pureness and sweet sensation of learning music, they can go
on to create music with more positive and beautiful meanings. They can help
spread it into their communities and make a positive and lasting impact on the
world.
Thanks for reading
Thanks for reading
Though I don't have very much musical talent, I still appreciate the violin and piano classes I took as a kid because of the good foundation and love of music it gave me. I hope all kids will still have the opportunity to do this!
ReplyDeleteI love the analogy you made about how the music that we are listening to now is like junk food. I definetly agree, but not all genres. When it comes to music, they are so many type of genres where it filters that type of sexual violent songs. That is why a lot of people I know listen to country music, or throw back songs to avoid listening to this "junk food music".
ReplyDeleteAs a kid I personally loved going to music class. I will agree that sometimes todays music can be very negative. However, I still believe that music brings people together. I feel that music classes are needed in elementary school because they do teach them a lot of valuable lessons.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the cultural impact part of this post. It's a different perspective than what normally comes to my mind yet one that's so important. It's really interesting to me how music can shift so drastically decade to decade and even year to year.
ReplyDeleteI agree that music won't really affect someone's "morals" per se, but that one could be wrapped up in the emotional influence. Since emotions can make people do things they normally wouldn't, morals could be thrown to the wayside because of music. Nice post!
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