Amy Ngo
In the article "Sing a Song of Drug Use-Abuse: Four Decades of Drug Lyrics in Popular Music--From the Sixties Through the Nineties", author John Market discusses the involvement of drugs in song lyrics. He shows that the hard drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have negative reputations in songs by recording artists showing that they are addictive and deadly. LSD is lacking in lyrics, but there is acid rock to give listeners the sound of what the drug is like. The music of the 70s were the songs about marijuana with either praise or negativity split between the older and younger generations respectively. However, it is only an assumption that lyrics positively enter the drug experience because the listeners are the younger generation. They are prone to experimenting and music itself is a socializing agent.
In the article "Sing a Song of Drug Use-Abuse: Four Decades of Drug Lyrics in Popular Music--From the Sixties Through the Nineties", author John Market discusses the involvement of drugs in song lyrics. He shows that the hard drugs, like heroin and cocaine, have negative reputations in songs by recording artists showing that they are addictive and deadly. LSD is lacking in lyrics, but there is acid rock to give listeners the sound of what the drug is like. The music of the 70s were the songs about marijuana with either praise or negativity split between the older and younger generations respectively. However, it is only an assumption that lyrics positively enter the drug experience because the listeners are the younger generation. They are prone to experimenting and music itself is a socializing agent.
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