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Get Up Stand Up:

This article talked all about the power of Bob Marley's Music. It talked a lot about Bob Marley's background and how he lived in poverty, then he moved to American during the time of Martin Luther King, and realized how bad racism was. He then moved back to Jamaica where he converted from Christianity to Rastifarian. This is when he chose to fight against oppression, through music. It was then we all fund out just how powerful music could be. His song, Get Up Stand Up was so popular and listened to so much that it was believed to be he was a target of the CIA, and even was almost assisinated. Before and even now, after his death he is known for bringing people together because he voiced his concerns about power in his music and is now known as a freedom fighter. This article highlighted exactly how powerful the written word through a song could be.

Sing Song of Drug Abuse:

This article goes into the notion that lyrics teach bad behavior. There were claims made that music makes men sexist, people do drugs, and so on and so forth. It claims that songs act as a socializing agent and that music reflects a change in attitude. It also showed and gave many examples of different lyrics where drug use is praised and where drug use is attacked. It found that altogether music has been negative towards drugs an that today people have a more negative thought process towards weed and LSD than older people do (because of the Beatles revolution).