Music on the young minds
Statement of the Issue/ Introduction
Dancehall music is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970. Initially dancehall was a sparser version of reggae than roots style which dominated the 1970’s. Dancehall owes its moniker to the Jamaican dancehalls in which popular Jamaicans recordings were played by local sound systems. These began in the late 1940’s among people from the inner city of Kingston such as Trench town and Denham Town. Social and political changes in the late 1970’s Jamaica were reflected in a shift away from the more internationally oriented roots reggae towards a style geared more towards local consumption, and in tune with the music that Jamaicans had experienced when sound systems performed live.
In the Sunday gleaner March 2, 2008 written by Gareth Manning “music triggers early sexual activity- study”, teenagers are identifying music mainly of dancehall genre as a trigger for early sexual intercourse. A study was conducted by public policy analyst and doctoral candidate Tazhmoye Crawford, at the UWI Mona. The study , which revealed that a number of children aged 9-17, indentified popular music as the main influence for experimenting with sex. However, Dylan Pow, organizer of the famed ‘passa passa’ street dance, argues that dancehall music is merely a speck in the array of sexual messages promoted by the mass media and is therefore, no more influential than hip hop or soca.
I have decided to investigate the effects of the lyrical content of dancehall music on the behavior and performance of student’s base on these recent surges and development in today’s society, within the dancehall industries.
Dancehall music is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970. Initially dancehall was a sparser version of reggae than roots style which dominated the 1970’s. Dancehall owes its moniker to the Jamaican dancehalls in which popular Jamaicans recordings were played by local sound systems. These began in the late 1940’s among people from the inner city of Kingston such as Trench town and Denham Town. Social and political changes in the late 1970’s Jamaica were reflected in a shift away from the more internationally oriented roots reggae towards a style geared more towards local consumption, and in tune with the music that Jamaicans had experienced when sound systems performed live.
In the Sunday gleaner March 2, 2008 written by Gareth Manning “music triggers early sexual activity- study”, teenagers are identifying music mainly of dancehall genre as a trigger for early sexual intercourse. A study was conducted by public policy analyst and doctoral candidate Tazhmoye Crawford, at the UWI Mona. The study , which revealed that a number of children aged 9-17, indentified popular music as the main influence for experimenting with sex. However, Dylan Pow, organizer of the famed ‘passa passa’ street dance, argues that dancehall music is merely a speck in the array of sexual messages promoted by the mass media and is therefore, no more influential than hip hop or soca.
I have decided to investigate the effects of the lyrical content of dancehall music on the behavior and performance of student’s base on these recent surges and development in today’s society, within the dancehall industries.