Demir, Çağlar (2009) Investigating lyrics in rock music genres, folk music and heavy metal and their effects on society. Other thesis, TED ANKARA COLLEGE FOUNDATION HIGH SCHOOL.
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Abstract
My extended essay deals with lyrics and their effects on the society. Lyrics are highly important in music; they might cause you to feel a special feeling, they can affect you in political means if it is a protest song or they can just entertain you. In my extended essay, I deal with how lyrics vary between specific genres. When doing this, I looked at the meaning behind the lyrics, what is aimed with those lyrics and the group of people that those lyrics appeal to. What I saw was that some songs were written just to entertain, some had lyrics that were part of the marketing of that band; like punk artists which used lyrics to appeal teenagers and sell more records, some were expressing some problems; political or personal; like folk artists which used lyrics to teach people. I also became aware that each lyric I studied was written not only by the author to feel relieved but it had a larger meaning, the lyrics I examined stood for a group of people, which I dealt with in my extended essay. My purpose in studying this topic was to show how effective lyrics are – to sell more records, to stand for an idea or to stand for a group of people – though we are not aware of it most of the time.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Other) |
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| Additional Information: | IB Notu: C |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | lyrics, society, rock music, folk music, heavy metal |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Depositing User: | Kamil Çömlekçi |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2009 13:02 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2019 10:19 |
| URI: | http://tedprints.tedankara.k12.tr/id/eprint/8 |
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