Violent Music

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Criticism and controversy surround a lot of issues in the modern world today. For instance, graphically violent and sexually explicit lyrics, particularly, in heavy metal and rap music have been named by some as the cause for pernicious and destructive behavior in the adolescents and young adults who listen to it. This paper argues that to allege that violent material contained within music lyrics has not been proven to cause real-life violence is not to, in any way, defend or endorse media violence. It explains however, that there are many angles of this theory that frequently go unmentioned.

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"It is long overdue that society as a whole stop overlooking the reality of what is causing our youth to unleash anger and rage. If violent music is not the origin of societal turbulence among our nations' young people, public attention should turn to what does. Violence is cause by unabated familial, economic, and political problems, and these things are what need to be addressed. Music does not create violence; it brings what exists to America's attention and forces people to acknowledge it. Steven S. Salem of Billboard Magazine commented, "Artists have never been anything but mirrors of their surroundings.""

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