INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON CULTURE

Influence of Music on Culture

Influence of Music on Culture

Over my last nineteen years, I have not noticed how much pop culture influences the youth of today. I have always thought people did what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it, not because of the way the society imposes a way for people to live. Pop culture is the culture is the way of life of the youthful generation of that particular time and era. In addition, many things influence pop culture. However, the two most influential things are television and music. And since this is assumed true, pop culture changes constantly. Pop culture has had a huge influence on the younger generation of today.

The culture we live everyday is influenced by the mass media. In addition, we, the people that want to listen to the media, influence the mass media. The influence has a negative and positive effect on the youth of today's generation.

Television has a major influence on the way of life of today's younger generation. Television over the years has given the younger generation more of a group behavior rather than individual behaviors. For example, a student reading a newspaper in a professor's class. The student needs noise to concentrate; the noise would normally be a group of people. This new behavior comes from the trained behavior of reading studying with the television on in the background (Common Culture 1998).

Television has made the people who live the pop cultural life of today more like "couch potatoes" (Common Culture, 1998). They sit in front of the television set and watch the tube for the reason that television takes them away from reality. This behavior makes people more anti-social.

The anti-social behavior comes from the fact that people fear what is really out in the real world. Therefore, they shy away from reality. They fear crime, disease, and the unthinkable happening at the most inopportune time. People also watch television because, to quote Barbara Ehrenreich, "fear brings us a world in which television does not exist"(Common Culture,p. 160). In other words, television lets us see what we really want to see. And television shows the ideas of the generation that influences the pop culture of today( Culture Wars, 1991).

Music has a large part to do with the culture we live also. It influences people in so many different ...