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Music and its affects on society

Music is an unavoidable ingredient in everyone’s life. Whether its music we play by personal choice or music we hear in supermarkets or a retail store. Society will hear music. What comes along with the music and markets the music is what will affect the listener. These include the casualties of music, its image and its means of promotion. Music does affect society and it is through these mediums in which it achieves it.

Casualties within music are frequent and tragic. Concerts, whilst enjoyable and memorable, regularly lead to tragedy and mayhem. For example on February 20, 2003 ‘The Station’, a club in Rhode Island, caught fire killing 97 people. (Guitarist among, 2003). Suicides include Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Ian Curtis of Joy Division. In July of 2000 Eminem’s wife, Kim Mathers was sent to hospital after an attempted suicide. (Eminem’s wife, 2000). On the positive side after Aaliyah’s death her album sales increased from 62, 081 copies to 305, 911. (Aaliyah rea...

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