Kah Kahn Summary

In his article, Kahn argues that environmentalism has increasingly proliferated as a musical topic and written in many genres, such as Folk music, Classical music, Rock music, or Hip hop music. The songs were written based on the truth about environmental issues, so they make listeners think about how their bad habits destroy the environment and the Earth. Also, the environmental songs are also solutions for reducing pollution, such as “Trees" that was used by MTV’s Think Campaign to promote environmental awareness and $1 from eachdownload of the song as a single was provided to the environmentalist organization, Friends of the Earth. Moreover, the role of environmentalism also played in children’s music to teach and help children understand evironmentalism earlier to shape the good mind and habit for them to protect evironment.

The article uses many reliable references to prove his claims. Moreover, he gives specific example for each claims, so the ideas are very clear. It a good essay about the development and effects of environmental songs. I am going to use some main ideas such as claims in environmental songs to clarify what protest song in evironmental issue talk about, genres to prove how abundant evironmental songs are, and shaping people 's minds and teaching children ideas to describe how the songs impact people 's