MUSIC

The music can play an important role in the socialization and the formation of the identity of the adolescent, and it has become a symbol of its search of identity and autonomy. The adolescents use music like reinforcement of identification with their group of equal, like vehicle of their revolt against the conventional thing, to help them to settle down a separated identity of the one of their parents or simply she is used to relax, to entertain themselves or to avoid the solitude feeling. To listen to music and to see musical videos are two of the related most important activities during the adolescence.

The young people listen to music since they rise until they lie down, and many of them even sleep with music. Music is used by the young people and adolescents like background music and support from the shower, while they make the duties or they help in the house tasks, when they go in meter, bus, car or moto, or while they watch or they speak with the friends.

The election of an adolescent of music and its emotion or corresponding answer can vary according to the age, ethnic group, culture and sex. There are many types of music: alternative, classic, folflórica, heavy-metal, jazz, rap, rock, pop, electronic, sauce, grunge, house, techno…

The letters of many of the songs can contain violent, sexually suggestive texts or of of worrisome elements (drugs, suicide, death, Satanism).

We must know that young people frequently ignore the sexual subjects of the letters. The adults, by the contario, catch the subjects like sex, drugs, violence or Satanism. The adolescents interpret mainly their favorite songs in love terms, friendship, growth, preoccupations of the life, diversion, cars, religion, and other topics related to the life of the adolescents.

Some adolescents who prefer songs with subjects like homicide, suicide and Satanism pass more time listening this type of music and are more prone to listen to the letters, but they have a smaller tendency to think than music could have negative influences in its behavior compared with students who prefer another type of music.

Videos musical have turned form persuasiva, that influences in the culture of the consumers and has altered the habits of the adolescents who are their main hearing, with respect to the form to see the TV, to listen to music and to buy discs. They are used by the producers of TV to gain hearing and by the disc producers to sell music. If we analyzed the content of the musical videos the most common subjects they include by frequency order: visual abstractions, sex, dance and violence or crime. In any case it seems that the adolescents are, mainly, interested in seeing this type of videos to enjoy music, to find the meaning of the songs whom they like and to learn about which he is popular.

The artists of pop music play a role important in the development of the adolescents since they can act like models, being able to arrive to be idolized. Scenes of fanaticism in concerts, long delays of his “fans” in the doors of the hotels where their ídolos are stayed, or the imitation of movements.

Nancy Urra