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Imagine this, you are home alone and in your room, you have no friends to talk to, or to help you through the emotions that you are feeling, therefore, you put on your headphones, or turn on your stereo, and completely lose yourself in the music that helps you make it through all the depressing, anxious feelings. Did you know some types of music can do this to some people more than other types of music will? The one type that can be considered to do this more than others can be considered “emo music.” People can put many different genres in this group, but the types of music that seems to do this more than other genres is metal, hard core, hard rock, screamo, and a genre called extreme music. Emo music can be considered healthy for people instead …show more content…

During one study, researchers found that emo music did not make participants angry or angry participants angrier, rather, it seemed to match their physiological arousal and increase positive emotions in the people who were a part of the study. Some researchers, even say that listening to extreme music may actually be a healthy way of processing anger (Sharman). When it comes to the “emo” concerts, fans can actually use headbanging and slamming around in the pit to release some of their pent up frustrations (Bailey). In ways, it can be designed to help channel a person's anger, and also move to put an action behind the anger that they feel as well (Seawell). It is known that when someone is or becomes angry they need a way to release their anger, so when emo music channels and puts actions behind people's anger it is helping people find a nondestructive way to process their anger. Some people can even describe the genre of emo music as a type of fun, playful, and intentionally ridiculous music (Westerholm). People do not seem to realize it, but sometimes a certain memory of betrayal can end up being completely consumed by a blaring guitar and a complicated drum solo can make it easier to let go of your own hate and anger that can be coming from this terrible memory (Bailey). This research will hopefully, one day, change peoples minds about emo music and show them just how helpful it can

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Since the rise of hard rock/ heavy metal in the 1980s, many crimes and deaths have been blamed on the bands (or singers). The Parents Music Resource Center plastered Parental Advisory stickers everywhere, and bands defending their music and themselves from the overly protective parents. Hard Rock/ heavy metal is a scapegoat for those who look for a high murder/ suicide rate. In 2009, Metallica’s “Ronnie” was almost considered for a New Jersey man’s reason to kill his own mother and a young boy.

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Music has the power to change people. We can see this in the book “All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America”, Glenn Altschuler. Altschuler investigates how the phenomena affected racial and gender relations, the pop music business, and societal perceptions of adolescent sexuality. In Altschuler's book he considers the 1950’s “the age of anxiety”.

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