blogpost 2: rock and roll to an individual

As a rock music lover, I'am surely being affected by just listening to it. For me, rock music is everything, its like my way of life. Music will never define me if they not exist. When I have troubles in my life music is just there to comfort me. Now, I'm going to tell you how rock music affects an individual's mind by using drugs, having sex and change of believes.

According to the article that I've read which is "Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll" by Donald Durham of gatehouseacademy.com stating that an individual listening to rock music are trying to emulate the personality of the mood of a certain band. If the that band is an emotional band that certain individual is adopting all of the bands mood. They always tend to follow the meaning or the message of whatever song that the band made. "For decades perhaps longer each generation of human society has adopted a genre of music to identify with. This phenomenon in terms of the emerging identity of the adolescents of that generation, while others have emphasized the cathartic use of the generation’s music to express itself in less aggressive terms than might otherwise emerge. John Wesley was known to have taken well-known bar ditties and turned them into Christian hymns in the early Reformation movement much to the chagrin of the established society of the time." Donald Durham said.

For me, rock music surely influences me by its songs and genres. It is like rock music is the music influential genre ever made in my opinion. Many people can't even survive without rock music.

As I said that rock music can affect everything in you is that, its not only influential to your sex,drugs and ect. it can change your cultural and religion believes. According to the article that I have just read which is "Ethno-National Pop-Rock Music Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism Made from Within" by Motti Regev of cus.sagepub.com saying that if you are just a normal person with a normal religion you are into, there is a chance that rock music can make a change out of that person. I think its all because that the certain rock band has its own cultural and religion believe that the certain fan will also adopt its mood for being them. Motti Regev stated that. "Pop-rock music is portrayed as a major embodiment of the transformation of national cultural uniqueness from purist essentialism into aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Examining the local production of ethno-national pop-rock, and its public reception and legitimation through half a century, the article demonstrates how forces within the national context greatly contribute to cultural globalization."

For me, there is nothing wrong about this kind of situation it always depends on that certain person. Like if they like to change, well, go ahead! If they don't want to lets all respect them. 

My conclusion is, rock music is not to our society. Just imagine rock music is just a plain old music that you will love and you will appreciate until the end.