Depends on what the meaning of “music” is! I think classical music is edifying. But, who needs a taxpayer-funded grant to identify my musical preferences or moral proclivities?
I really enjoy BOTH kinds of music, Country and Western.
This is fine except mostly backwards as to how it comes about.
Correlation is not causation for several reasons. Consequently, I am skeptical of the results of number-crunching without insight.
It would be better to start with a possible insight and go from there.
It’s obvious that a preference for gospel music suggests a religious orientation. What about a preference for rap music? Surely, that is suggestive of something.
What about classical or other instrumental music? Perhaps this correlates with logical thinking and mathematical reasoning. If there is causation, in what direction? Are logical people drawn to instrumental music? Do children who listen to classical music acquire certain cognitive abilities?
So, can we assume if you like Yoko Ono, Zamphir, Slim Whitman, or Billy Ray Cyrus, you’re a mass murderer?
How do they factor in unintelligible lead vocals? A good example is Steve Winwood on “Shootout At The Fantasy Factory” by Traffic (1973).
I’ll stick with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Dinah Washington, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.......
A few weeks back I read a post at FR that I considered racist. It’s a rare thing here. I won’t be harsh. Clearly the person posting had some experience with people at the bottom end of the Black community. I am talking about the kind of people that many Blacks would describe using the N-word.
I’m a firm believer in nurture over nature on this topic. Democrats insist that Blacks attend low-quality, inner-city, government schools that teach nothing in 12 years, but to vote Democrat. It does not have to be that way.
Perhaps music says it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcmolBWAKgs
Most of the music I like is performed by dead guys.
Gangstas listen to Gangsta rap. Duh! Who would have thunk it?
Why?
Because Grant Money.
GOBBLY GOOK-—ALL OF IT
So many women are big fans of Taylor Swift and think her music is the tops. Are they all innocent girls with good morals? Are they all gold digging whores like the Kardashians? I doubt all her fans could be put in one philosophical box
So what about people who listen to prog rock? We probably find most everything too complicated to fit into their 4 bubble world.
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music is “a powerful medium that reflects and shapes our moral sensibilities”
I agree with that to a degree. Also, the adolescent brain is possibly susceptible to many subliminal forces.
And then there is the “where do you spend your time” aspect. It is no wonder that lyrics going around in one’s head would influence behavior.
Thank you for working to provide the meat of the article via excerpts, yet to no fault of your own, I was still left looking for the specific findings of correlation, which none of the article provides. My guess is that liberals do not like gospel and country music.
So they will force boys to listen to music only girls would pay for, and ban music they believe causes boy to be masculine.