How does music affect society?

music has a significant affect on its listeners. it is used to inform the masses. music can influence the way we dance, dress, talk and it also sets the tone for cultures.

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I think that music of a particular time seems to relfect the opposite of what's going on in society. For example, think of Mozart's music, it's some of the most beautiful music ever written, same with Beethoven. Now both of these composers lives weren't exactly easy. They suffered, lost their families and were constantly struggling, with either money or social acceptance. Now we have bands like Black Sabbath, and Cradle of Filth.....just look at these names. And the music seems to be written always about really bad violent things, sometimes sad...etc etc. Music is a form of art. How will it affect society? Well, music is one of those things that is uncapable of sustaining life, but things like music, art, poetry....these are the types of things that we stay alive for. I'm not sure on how it would effect society, but I know that in some cases, depending on the type of music it would be good, and on some others, it would be bad. The more aggressive the music, probably the more grumpy the people who listen to it if you know what I mean.

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I think that music affects society by the type of music people listen to which tells them wich emotion that they will be feeling. Now in days the music we listen to is more about violence and aggresive action. So I think that we should pay attention more to the types of music that contributes to the types of emotion people are thinking about.

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" If you want to measure the spiritual depth of society, make sure to mark it's music." -Plato

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