![]() ![]() ![]() The adherents of this theory consider rap music to be one of the greatest threats for the soles and minds of young Americans. Grossman and DeGaetano in their book “Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV Movie and Video Game Violence” (1999) pursue this idea even further, as they prove that media not only conditions children and young adults to violent behavior, but also teaches them the “mechanics of killing”. Psychologists and sociologists say, that young people tend to act as their idols do, so that when they see popular artists, actors and singers consuming alcohol, smoking, using illicit drugs, shooting and committing other violent acts on TV screen, teenagers little by little get used to the thought that those actions are normal, and moreover, needed to look “cool”. Despite of the positive effect the rap songs had, nowadays lot’s of people blame them for the rapid increase of the level of violence in the U.S. Throughout the past decades, rap music had contributed to the social consciousness a lot, as it displayed the problems the Afro-American poor had. Of the variety of factors that affect the social consciousness music is one of the most prominent ones, as the creativity is sometimes the only way to tell the world about the inequality, discrimination and injustice that is happening. ![]()
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