MUSIC AND IDENTITY: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MUSIC AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN TEENAGERS

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MUSIC AND IDENTITY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MUSIC AND
IDENTITY FORMATION IN TEENAGERS

• By Carly Haines Nadine Schneider
• BTMM 8441 Prof. Lombard
• April 23, 2009

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Marilyn Manson Pure Evil or Pure Genius

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vg6O4sw4NmMM

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Theories of Music Influences

• Social Learning Theory Children and teenagers
  take what they see and use it as a reference for
  later actions. By identifying with different
  media or performers and the content, the consumer
  takes the information from the content and and
  make into their own.
• Excitation Transfer Theory Suggests media are
  stimuli that excite the potential aggression or
  violent behaviors that might lead teens to
  interpreting these expressions in harmful or
  destructive ways.
• Displacement Theory Used to understand the way
  audiences transfer and change their media
  patterns once a new medium is introduced. They
  pass the way they use one media as a guide on how
  to use the other.

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Social Uses of Music

• clubbing, partying, and in the ritual of
  preparing to go out. Music sets the mood.
• As a medium, music provides a prime example of
  the cultural and social shifts between the
  private space of the bedroom and public spaces
  such as the pub or club (Lincoln, 2005, p.403).

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Self-Expression and Identity

• Music is a key vehicle for the expression and
  contestation of cultural identities at both a
  collective and personal level (Baker, 2001,
  360).
• Genres of Music goth, punk, heavy-metal, gangsta
  rap, hip-hop, folk.
• Gangsta Rap Snoop Dogg http//www.youtube.com/wat
  ch?vo6TUhx2wX0M
• Heavy Metal http//www.youtube.com/watch?vo8F_Ka
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Emo A Culture of Its Own
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Emo Examples

• Emo What it really is
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• Some call this Emo http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
  mtzNeSiVQeQfeaturerelated
• Mainstream Emo http//www.youtube.com/watch?vD
  LlOxxfWXxwfeaturechannel

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Politics and Music

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• Our kids will probably protest too. Protest is
  an old thing. There is always a need for protest
  songs. You just gotta tap it. --Bob Dylan
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXCDNaP11hwM
• Examples of Music and Politics
• Live AID 1985/2005
• Vietnam War
• Woodstock 1969
• Green Days American Idiot
• Inauguration 2009 concert

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Politics and Music continued

• Inauguration 2009
• This Land is Your Land
• -song by Woody Guthrie
• -performed in the 1960s by
• Bob Dylan and many others
• -Woody Guthrie used music as a form of activism
  (in the 1930s - 1950s) and his songs reflect
  his desire to give voice to those who had been
  disenfranchised http//www.woodyguthrie.org/biogr
  aphy/biography3.htm
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vg5KnYADCSms

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Politics and Music continued
Women in Music Riot grrrl was a manifestation of
the feminist movement within the music industry
to address the threat of sexual violence, the
need for spaces of creativity and communication,
and the exclusivity of male subcultures
(Moore, 2007, p. 463). The presence of women in
music gives girls the opportunity to see
themselves as musicians and artists.
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Behavior and Music

• Columbine High School Massacre
• April 20, 1999
• The shootings by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
  were blamed on their outsider status and violent
  media. Specifically, some accused Marilyn Manson
  of having a negative influence on these two kids.
  
• After the shootings, some schools became hyper
  vigilant with banning anything goth, and this
  caused some discrimination (Goldberg, 1999).
• A recent article (that talks about a new book on
  the subject) focused on the idea that their
  plans were so far reaching and elaborate that the
  only plausible explanation is that Harris and
  Klebold were psychologically disturbed (Toppo,
  2009).
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v90xJVOUuV-I

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Questions

• Does music affect teenagers? Or do the music
  preferences of teenagers reflect the identity
  they wish to project to the world?
• Were you ever restricted in the types of music
  you could listen to?
• Did anyone listen to Marilyn Manson or other
  artists who are considered taboo? What was your
  reason for listening? The music (beat, tempo,
  instruments) or the lyrics (relate to the feeling
  and themes presented)?
• Is the research overlooking any aspect you think
  is pertinent to the study of music and children?
• Does our culture need pop (mainstream) music as a
  way for large groups of people to share music
  together?
• Does an artist lose credibility when his or her
  music reaches mainstream status? If so, why?

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References

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• Baker, S. (2001). Rock on, Baby! pre-teen
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• Billboard (2009) Billboard Top 100."
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References

• Fong-Torres, B. (1976). Bob Dylan Knocking on
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• Goldberg, C. (1999, May 1). The shunned For
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• Halnon, K. B. (2005). Alienation incorporated
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• Henthoff, N. (1976). Bob Dylan The Rolling
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• Lincoln, S. (2005). Feeling the noise Teenagers,
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