Informative Speech About Rap Music
Intro
We all love music. From the darkest songs about things we don’t want to think about to heavenly pieces we can’t have enough of, music has just always been there. Even the almost imperceptible things like the small beat of a co-worker or classmate is tapping with their foot or the seemingly unconnected hubble of sound is music. But when you really get down to it, music has all kinds of questions that we can’t answer. For example, why do people like different types of music? Why do instruments all have a fundamental beat? Why does some things sound horrible, like a blackboard scratched with long nails, while some sound great, like nimble fingers on a piano? Isn’t everything music? When was music invented? Well, I’m about to answer three …show more content…
Quoting from the Suite 101 website that has written several books on the topic of music and the brain, “Sexually explicit lyrics and mounds of profanity exuberate throughout certain hip hop songs [which] can have a negative effect on the thoughts and feelings of adolescents.” So it has been shown that certain genres of music can have a negative effect on the prefrontal cortex(The part of the brain that gives us memory and learning, containing many neurons). But what about music in general? Research have shown through a series of MRI’s(Magnetic Resonating Images) that very loud music of any type will pervade into the brain and block all other thoughts, which could very well be considered a form of brainwashing.For example, say a group of people are at a late night party, where music is blasting away. Now say this music has abhorrent lyrics, which say things that people may regret if they did. And yet, because this music is so emphatic, people will do these things, which may have untold effects. It even has been told to us from The Department of Health, Injury Prevention and Control Section, EMS & Injury Prevention System Branch, that most documented suicides were committed with dark music playing in the background. Furthermore, music has even been shown to be as effective as marijuana as a drug, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. These
We all love music. From the darkest songs about things we don’t want to think about to heavenly pieces we can’t have enough of, music has just always been there. Even the almost imperceptible things like the small beat of a co-worker or classmate is tapping with their foot or the seemingly unconnected hubble of sound is music. But when you really get down to it, music has all kinds of questions that we can’t answer. For example, why do people like different types of music? Why do instruments all have a fundamental beat? Why does some things sound horrible, like a blackboard scratched with long nails, while some sound great, like nimble fingers on a piano? Isn’t everything music? When was music invented? Well, I’m about to answer three …show more content…
Quoting from the Suite 101 website that has written several books on the topic of music and the brain, “Sexually explicit lyrics and mounds of profanity exuberate throughout certain hip hop songs [which] can have a negative effect on the thoughts and feelings of adolescents.” So it has been shown that certain genres of music can have a negative effect on the prefrontal cortex(The part of the brain that gives us memory and learning, containing many neurons). But what about music in general? Research have shown through a series of MRI’s(Magnetic Resonating Images) that very loud music of any type will pervade into the brain and block all other thoughts, which could very well be considered a form of brainwashing.For example, say a group of people are at a late night party, where music is blasting away. Now say this music has abhorrent lyrics, which say things that people may regret if they did. And yet, because this music is so emphatic, people will do these things, which may have untold effects. It even has been told to us from The Department of Health, Injury Prevention and Control Section, EMS & Injury Prevention System Branch, that most documented suicides were committed with dark music playing in the background. Furthermore, music has even been shown to be as effective as marijuana as a drug, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. These