How do different types of music such as heavy metal rap or country affect a person's behavior? ?

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How do different types of music such as heavy metal rap or country affect a person's behavior? ?

Answer 1

I don't have Ph.D or anything in psychology or anything but I have first hand experience with music affecting my life. I listened to KMK(Kotton Mouth Kings) Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit just to name a few of bands I looked up to. Well everything they did I wanted it too. So my life copied my favorite members of each band. I started smokin green cause I wanted to be a King. I started pulling honeys cause I wanted to be a pimp. Which inevitably ended a great relationship. All because the music was saying how great it was. And I wanted something great like them.

  I deeply believe that the types of music somebody listens to will greatly influence ones life. I also lived in a town that had a huge "hood" mentality and rappers like 50 Cent, Game, ect, really had a grasp on their life.

So yes, what I've been through and seen first hand, I would conclude that music influences whoever listens to it. Recently I've throw all that garbage away and listen to arists like Lecrae, Trip Lee, Flame,  MC Risk, 116 Clique. Which is considered Holy Hip Hop :)

Answer 2

Different types of music affect a person's behavior in different ways; the brain's processing of music makes it difficult to predict the particular effect of any piece of music on any individual.  Certain types of sound cause certain responses from the nervous systems depending on the mood you are currently in, and the environment.

Music can provide an outlet for emotional expression. People use music to manipulate their moods, reduce stress, create environments for social occasions, provide stimulation and be a source of comfort.

Music not only affects our emotions, but our spiritual well being.  Music can affect our behavior without our conscious awareness. For some of us, music plays a much stronger role in our day-to-day life. People believe that those of us who have a stronger connection with music may have stronger or more active emotions.

As music plays an important role in a teenager’s life, there is concern among older generations about the possible negative effects of heavy metal or rap music on behavior. People have suggested that music imitates life, and that rap and heavy metal music simply reflects the alienation, powerlessness, and aggressiveness among some groups of adolescents.

Nevertheless, music can affect our moods, emotions, and physiological responses whether we like the music or not. Music is one of the most expressive and important forms of art.

"Music begins in the mind of its creator and ends in the daydreams of the listener. Its power lies in the ability of a single musical piece to be different things to different people - to become ours, to connect directly to our innermost dreams and desires."

Answer 3

I think it's more that you seek out certain music when you are in a certain mood.  If you are feeling angry, listening to happy music doesn't make you happy it just annoys you.  But if you put on some loud thrash metal and jump around and scream along then you feel better and less angry by the end of it.  In the same way I think the rhythms of urban music, like hip hop, suit the rhythm of city life, same as country suits the slower rhythm of rural life.  Music affects your behaviour only in how it interacts with your own state of mind.  

An interesting example of this is how classical music is used in some places to discourage drug use.  They play classical music loudly in places like train stations and it seems to dissuade people from certain sorts of behaviour, like hitting up on heroin.  Or at least, it makes people go elsewhere to do it.  I think the state of mind an addict waiting for a hit is in doesn't quite gel with the sweeping rhythms of classical and they find it unpleasant.

I don't buy any of the stuff about certain types of music making people more likely to be violent.  Although if I ever hear that Crazy Frog ringtone again...

Answer 4

It doesnt really.. I listen to some extremely violent music but im not a killa lol.. BUT it can change a young person's perception of right and wrong for stuff like sellin drugs to be glorified

Answer 5

I am based here in Bahrain and the U.S. soldiers here play loud heavy and death metal non stop. It definatley has the effect of phsyching you up and taking away fear of battle. The scientists reckon its got something to do with the vibrations in you ear. It must have been the same with the American naatives and their war dances