Essay On The Negative Effects Of Rock Music

Music is a way an artist expresses his emotions through the use of instruments. It used by teenagers to express themselves through their life changing stages into adulthood. It can make or break them depending on the kind of music they listen too.

Music helps teenagers to get higher grades by studying better. On the research of E. Glen Schellenberg, the May 2006 issue of Educational Psychology states that music lessons that were taught during childhood had an impact when they were older as they were getting better grades and had a higher IQ at a later stage. According to the Stanford University School of Medicine discovered that music has a positive effect on the areas of the brain for updating events on the memory, making predictions and attention. The Australian Music Association states that the education of music has the ability to help teenagers on the development of their memory, language performance and enhancing problem solving and

On the research of the University of Missouri states that teenagers who preferred rock music were involved in drug usage, drunk driving, vandalism, poor grades and casual sex. It also states that girls who listen to rock music lack confidence and are depressed. According to the professor of theology and a researcher of the Andrews University states that rock music creates a spirit of being rebellious against God as the artist Marilyn Manson said that people who listened to his music, God may be destroyed in their heads which shows that rock music has a negative effect on teenagers. It cause teenagers to have suicidal thoughts and it has also been blamed for teenagers committing suicide. The West Chester University has found cases that rock music was the cause of adolescence suicides. One of the cases was the band of Judas Priest which two males of the ages of eighteen and twenty had committed suicide because of listening to the band’s music which the court found the band