Music and Violence
Each generation of adolescents has an artist or type of music that parents vehemently disapprove. The current generation has rap and alternative rock music. Many adults make the claim that some of this music causes violence, such as "Big Man with a Gun" by Nine Inch Nails (Palumbo 2). Some music has violent and explicit content, but a violent song, itself does not cause physical harm. Other songs of rap and alternative music have content of simple things, like cars or other materialistic items.
Children listen to music that they have access to at home or in stores. Until a child is eighteen years of age, the parents can decide what the child can listen to on the radio, the television, or CDs ("Bennett bashes..." 6; Palumbo 4). A popular claim about rap music is that songs reflect the lives of many African Americans (Medved 21; "Time to squash..." 33). A violent life is only true for some African Americans, but others relate to the culture because society......
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