Music...

People listen to music on a daily basis, in the car, working, at home, etc. Music has become a daily part of our lives. Nowadays there are many different genres/types of music available to listen to. You can listen to anything from rap, a form of rhyming lyrics spoken rhythmically over musical instruments, with a musical backdrop of sampling, scratching and mixing by DJs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap), to punk rock, a loud fast moving form of rock music with crude and aggressive effects. (http://simplythebest.net/music/glossary/music_glossary_p.html). Everyone has their own tastes in music, and will always argue that what they like is better than everything else. In my opinion music stirs emotion.

When I listen to rap, I get excited, it really induces something inside of me to feel excited. When I listen to country it leads me to feel happy, it makes me think about fun times. But that is just a generalization. Every song is different in every genre. Some rap songs can make me feel down, instead of up and excited, and some country songs can get me energized. The lyrics and the sound of the voice and background instruments pull a song together to be one perfect collaboration. Even if you haven’t been in the situation that the artist is singing about, you can still feel what they are trying to express.

Each person listening to their music can receive different messages. It’s all how you interpret what the author is saying and talking about. This is related to the concept of listening. When you listen to what the artist is saying you absorb it and try to explain what they’re saying to yourself, and find the message that they are hiding in their words. When people listen to music they either put a lot of effort in, and try to determine what is being said, or they put none at all, and just listen to it because of a good beat, but it all depends on the person.

Adler, Ronald B., and George Rodman. Understanding Human Communication. New York: Oxford, 2006.

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