Crap Music :: essays research papers

The essay I read suggested that mountain of low intelligence/class (i.e. teenagers) use junk music to try and drown out their purportedly harsh reality. The author also suggests that the more intelligent pack in the world do not listen to loud music because the decibel take at which you listen to music somehow indicates your intelligence. I cannot agree with that statement because I have talked to my friends and aquaintences and they told me that music helps to lift their spirits and some even give tongue to that music helps them to cope with their reality. In addition, studies have shown that some people who listen to music while they study actually do better on the test the next day, because the music relaxes them. In the aforementioned essay, the author also mentions the two slack-jawed young assistants. This was quite obviously stating that the repairmen were of lower social standing, and that the junk music they were blaring was emphasizing their low class. The author cont inues on to mention elevator music and how it is alright to play it in factories and restaurants so that the personnell do not fall unconscious or brood on the essential monotony of their jobs. I thought that the whole point of the essay was to complain about low class people trying to escape reality through music, and then he contradicts himself. He also said (essentially) that the young workers had no interest in the serene mise en scene in which they were working, and the same goes for all low-class people. I find that laughable, as some of the greatest painters and artists, poets and writers were lower class citizens in their time. He states his opinion that people play such junk music not to bring something in, but to shut things out. Supposedly, people do not want to hear the music for chaste enjoyment, but rather we use it as a narcotic of sorts, blocking out reality and dispelling the thought-provoking silence that accosts us when we are alone. The author continues to be wilder off topic by mentioning societys so-called televsion addiction, the sports mania, and the intense prioccupation with trivia, which according to the author, which are all supposed factors in creating the vacuum that makes up peoples (mostly teenagers) heads. Mr. Harris concludes with the statement, this great gift has been turned against itself, creating a cacophony to dull and deaden and dehumanize the soul.