The Project «The Youth and Music»
“When I was one-and-twenty.”
A.E.Housman
When
I was one-and-twenty,
I
heard a wise man say:
“Give
crowns and pounds, and guineas,
But
not your heart away;
Give
pearls away and rubies,
But
keep your fancy free.”
But
I was one-and-twenty,
No
use to talk to me.
Young
people have a particular relation-ship with the world. It seems to me that
everything about us, our hair, our music, our clothes, the way we talk, our
heroes, our dreams, all are considered bad by the old (fathers) generation. There
are many grouping (subcultures) that have interests different from those of the
mainstream culture.
And what is today’s mainstream?
In
the broadest sense, subcultures are groups within a larger complex culture. Different
subcultures have their own beliefs, value systems, fashion, and favorite music.
I think, the inspiration to form a youth culture comes out of a combination of
fashion, style and music.In many ways the elder generation cannot understand
the younger because there is a problem of generation, the problem of fathers
and kids.
Besides
most teenagers are unsure of where they are going, they don’t have an idea.
And youth culture is a way of
having something that they can say – they belong to and that they are a
“whatever”.
I
am what I am
I
am my own
Special
creation.
So
come take a look.
Give
me the hook
Or
the ovation.
It’s
my world that
I
want to have
A
little pride in.
My
world…
And
it’s not a plase
I
have to hide in.
Life’s
not worth a damn
Until
you can say
I
am what I am
And
very often it’s the particularity of the music, which then gathers a group and
then extends and develops. Music festivals are the events in the youth culture,
which are remembered.
But now we are not going to speak about grouping and
their music. We are not going to describe Goth and bands like Siouxsie and the
Banshees, Joy Division and Bauhaus We’ll not describe hippie and their Beatnik
subculture.
The topic we are going
to speak about is very serious and important. It is special because it concerns
the whole society so everybody of us. This topic is “Music and drugs”.
People often associate youth culture and youth
violence with drug usage. What is our attitude towards drugs and drug
addiction? Of course drug addiction causes to loose everything, financially and
emotionally. Drugs ruin our dreams. Drugs ruin families. They make our lives
unhappy.Nowadays techno life means nonstop partying. Partying usually makes
people take drugs.
“Disco”
The unpleasant side of drugs is degradation. All drugs
destroy people.
It is the urgent issue. About the actuality of this
topic the ruthless figures speak:
¨
200 young people die from drugs in
Russia every day;
¨
10 000 000 drug users – in Russia;
¨
for the last 10 years the
mortality (deaths-rate) from usage of drugs has increased in 40 times in our
country.
We can fight against drug usage only by convincing
and by upbringing.
And music as any other kinds of art, as sport and other
exciting activities can help people suffering from drug addict.Music can serve
as prophylactic measure of drug usage.
But
there are musical bands and performers, which are full of narcomanical glory.
They are: scandal famous
group – Sex Pistols, Bob Marley, died from drug taking. Kurtka Bane also died
from drug taking. Elvis Priestly died from drug taking.Their music can provoke
usage of drugs.
Fortunately
there is a lucky example. Kate Richards gave up taking drugs and now he
performs successfully together with Mike Jaggier, the guitar player and the
author of the songs for Rolling Stones. Music is not guilty. Music itself may
be the best drug for as. Certain sound emotions cause the effect of flight. It
is pleasant to listen to such music in a plane.
And
what music can cause positive emotions? Folk music, classical, sacred, organ,
spiritual music, harmony music inspires people; make them free from excitement,
appeals to our hearts, to our feelings. Such music brings us info state of
great happiness produced as if by a drug. It may be the music by Persol, Vivaldi
or hymns. Let’s listen to such music and without any drugs we’ll enjoy the
world of beautiful dreams.
It
was the music by Rolf Lowland, performed by Irish symphony orchestra. Slow,
relaxed music can give a sleep-producing effect. If may be blues, lullabies. But
words must not be about loneliness, sadness or lost love.
If
a young man is addicted to cocaine, a drug used illegally for pleasure, or amph-
etamine, a drug taken by people wanting excitement, in such cases it is
necessary to listen to very calm and low emotional music. Jazz and landscape
music will do.
And
it is very important not to be alone. Let’s pay attention to people who are
near us. Let’s help them. And music will help us.
And
if a doctor keep trying to break young man of his dependence on the drug it is
better for the addict to listen to energetic music with clear rhythm in the
style of hard rock heavy metal speed metal or rap. These musical styles
mobilize the resources of the organism the mental forces. As if the music says
to young man: “Up and Go! It is time to struggle for yourself ! ”
Besides
kids should be listening to music with messages like staying away from drugs.
There are some rap songs that are all right. Rap may even help young man to
express his feelings.
Rap-serenade(video)
Some
grouping such as raver, punks mod or rockers listen to computer-made, synthesized
music and drugs to try out all sorts of options, to express their identity.
They are associated with something rebellions, aggressive and violent. We mean psychedelic
or acid rock. Acid is a type of chemical substance which may destroy things it
touches.
And
as for psychedelic music it changes human powers of thinking and under- standing
things. It fills completely your attention your interest your time. It absorbs
you in another reality. As if hallucinated young man in the result of drug
usage. LSD for example. You may listen to acid jazz relaxing working doing your
everyday affairs. Acid music may help you to produce unusual non-standard
ideas.
All
of us depend on something: TV, computers, shopping or music. Do you know that
music by Skrjabin is compared with drugs in the part of influence people? Music
is the best drug for people. It enriches us.
I
agree with you some music is immoral. Concerning the teens they need music to
escape from the boring world from the world of different duties aggressive
pressing world in which they live.
Music
for teenagers is powerful means of identity with some group of mates. Music is
means of escaping from loneness. I agree some kind of music is violent and some
music destroy our minds destroy our ears. But I don’t think that banning music
is the answer.
To
my minds our parents must be concerned about music we listen to. They should be
careful about CD they buy for us. Besides no music likings are everlasting.
People age changes, our interests change and our circle of friends change too. I
am sure teenagers become good citizens. Some who were punks became editors of
famous newspapers.
Listen to Ulia Drunina`s poem:
“ И мы пижонами были когда-то
а время пришло и пошли мы в солдаты…”
If only adult people are
tolerant enough young people will learn to listen to “right” music some when. As
Mark Twain once said: “When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant that I could
hardly stand to have the old man around .But when I got to be 21 I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
If
only adult people listen to teens` music attentively they will hear in it
similarity with high music. Take Bach for example. Here you’ll find everything
that rock has. Bach is the whole Universe. There are different tunes and
rhythms in it.
Dependence
from music gives you the rich world. Music can save you from destroying of
drugs .Music will save you from heavy dependence on drugs. That is the high
influence of ART .The aspiration to fly over the fuss of our everyday life
makes us to seek for different passions. It’s great when music goes up and up
to Heaven. It’s an unforgettable feeling.
Когда счастливый круг земной
Обрел моря и сушу,
Господь из музыки одной
Людскую создал душу.
В переплетении ветвей
Небес весны холодной,
Пусть будет музыка
Твоей звездою путеводной.
Пусть будет музыка с тобой
В тиши и в звуках грома,
В пути вперед, в стране любой,
В стенах родного дома.
Пусть собираются толпой
Друзья и
незнакомцы.
Пусть просят все:
«Сыграй и спой!»
Как птица в свете солнца!
It was a poem by Olga
Garpenko and the song by Irish composer Rolf Lowland, performed by Brian
Kennedy. «Ты поднимаешь меня над
вершинами гор, над штормящим морем Ты поднимаешь меня над самим собой». It is impossible to disguise the fact that addicts
seek the same sensation (feeling) in drugs. But they are awfully mistaken. They
are mistaken to death. As for music? It gives us high feelings. But MUSIC never
betrays our trust. MUSIC never deceives.
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