Rock music as a weapon of mass extermination. The influence of music on the human psyche: rock, pop, jazz and classics - what, when and why to listen to

Hard Rock- music for gloomy teenagers who are aggressive and not very educated. Classical music people prefer calm and refined, and pop and R'n'B listen to partygoers, fun-loving people. Do you think this is true? Scientists have been studying the influence of musical preferences on intelligence for many years. The results of their research surprise many. In fact, pop music fans are hardworking, and rockers have the highest IQ.

In the not so distant eighties, rockers in our country were equated almost to Satanists. Gloomy guys and girls in leather jackets with studs struck fear into the surrounding grandmothers and young mothers. Due to the attributes and rebellious spirit inherent in rockers, a stereotype has become stronger in the minds of ordinary people: fans of this music are dangerous, almost antisocial personalities. Cultured and educated people were prescribed listen classical music , as a last resort - blues or jazz.

TO dance music fans They were treated a little more leniently, but they considered them slackers who could only have fun. Another popular belief was that funny music lifts your spirits, while sad and gloomy melodies, on the contrary, drive you away.

At some point, scientists became interested in the question. They decided to check whether there really was a connection between music and the mood, character and even level of intelligence of its listeners. The results of their research were a big surprise.

Firstly, not all people in a bad mood are recommended to listen to invigorating pop music or major classical works. The dissonance between the performer's mood and his own can drive a person into even greater depression. But hysterical songs give a feeling of empathy. So if your friend is down and listening sad ballads, don’t blame him for wanting to open up his wound. Perhaps it's his personal way of therapy.

And not so long ago, scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, led by Professor Adrian North, head of the department, also decided to test the connection between musical preferences and the intelligence and character of listeners.

During the study, scientists interviewed 36 thousand people from different countries peace. To determine the level of intelligence of volunteers, scientists used classic IQ tests, as well as a list of questions regarding the general education school curriculum. Perhaps the scientists set out to prove to teenagers what to listen to heavy music and rap is not safe for their brains. But the results surprised the researchers themselves.

“One of the facts that amazed us most is that fans of classical music and hard rock are very similar“Adrian North admitted. To the delight of teenagers and to the chagrin of parents, the highest intelligence was demonstrated by fans of classical music... and rock! “There is a stereotype in society of a hard rock fan as a person in deep depression with suicidal tendencies, it is generally accepted that rockers are dangerous elements of society. In fact, they are harmless and even useful for society as a whole. These are very subtle natures,” the scientist emphasizes.

However, as life shows, in adulthood many rockers turn to classical works, without giving up their favorite metal. Not surprisingly, the characteristics of fans of both genres were similar. “Both are creative, laid-back individuals, but not very sociable,” says North.

Fans of rap, hip-hop and r'n'b were recognized as the most narrow-minded - they showed the lowest results in IQ tests. But they are just like fans reggae, demonstrate enviably high self-esteem and communication skills. Do not suffer from self-criticism fans of jazz and blues- their self-esteem is also high.

The most creative were dance music fans, all the same rock, blues and jazz, as well as opera experts. And the most hardworking were considered to be fans of country music and fans of trending pop hits - people who, when asked about their musical preferences, answer “I listen to what’s on the radio.”

The influence of music on the human psyche

Music has taken over our entire planet. We cannot imagine our life without music. She's all so different. Like the colors of the rainbow, like the days of the week. There is an incredible amount of difference. And the quality did not disappoint. Everything is in music: the city, the people, and virtual world, and people's relationships. Even poetry can be set to music.

Music that influences the psyche. What kind of music do you prefer? Rock, jazz, popular, classical? Or maybe you are interested in a field about which little is known?

Impact of Rock Music. Rock music is “destructive”. Many novice researchers think so. They remember the incident when, at a concert famous rock band, the raw egg that was under the column, after three hours, was soft-boiled. Could the same thing really happen with the psyche?

But It's rare to meet people who love classical music. They perceive it very hard and feel uncomfortable.

Real case example. One young boy decided to conduct a very interesting experiment on himself. He gave all CDs with your favorite music to my friends. He didn’t give it, he just gave it away. For a while. So that there is no temptation to listen to what you like and are used to. He planned listen to classical music the whole day. But I couldn’t stand it: it lasted literally for several hours. Here's what stopped the listening:

1. Blood pressure has risen.
2. I was tormented by a migraine.
3. It became difficult to breathe.

The guy wanted to escape from the music. This is how he “cured his Bad mood" After such an experiment, the young man never listened to the classics again. She remained only in memories.

At all, music affects the human psyche depending on what kind of person he is. Temperament and personal qualities are woven into this.

People of the older generation, for example, relax their souls when they immerse themselves in classical melodies. They can listen to classical music all the time and will be happy to be able to listen to classical music online for free, 24 hours a day and at any volume. This seems very incredible, but it only seems. All people are different. Remember how the older generation tried to understand the younger generation’s love for rap culture, for example. It was impossible to understand. Understanding replaced humility. Yes, I had to come to terms with it. What was left to do?

Human psyche– patient, but flexible. Sometimes, it is impossible to predict where it will “take”. Sometimes incredible things happen to her: something that would seem to cause irritation, unexpectedly, serves as a means to calm her down. Yes, this happens too. It is important to be able to correctly accept and perceive this or that accident.

In truth, hardly anything in modern life is already capable of “infinitely” shocking humanity. What “shocks” could there be? musical world when people strive to combine notes with incompatible sounds, thereby obtaining a very good melody.

What to do if you really like the music, but it is condemned and criticized? Treat her the way you want, and not the way others expect you to treat her. Having a love for any direction in music, you are doing absolutely nothing wrong, you are not bothering anyone with your “predilection”. So what's the deal? Are you afraid of being judged? If yes, give up the music and “change” to something else. If not, enjoy what is so dear and valuable to you.

There is another option: write the music yourself! Put your whole soul and all its “depths” into the music. Perhaps you will become famous person. Perhaps you are on the verge of a “great” future? Time will put everything in place. // likar.info, pravda.ru, sunhi.ru

The author of this article was an outstanding surgeon of our time, one of the founders of domestic thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, laureate of the Lenin Prize, the First national award the best doctors of Russia, the Andrei Pervozvanny Prize, the Prize named after. A.N. Bakulev, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, editor-in-chief of the journal "Bulletin of Surgery named after I.I. Grekov", vice-president of the International Slavic Academy, president of the State Orthodox Foundation, member of the Writers' Union of Russia, honorary member of many domestic and foreign academies and scientific societies that have made a significant contribution to the annals of world surgery, included in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest practicing surgeon (during his lifetime). He was the permanent chairman, founded at the end of 1988. Uglov classified tobacco and alcohol as “legal drugs,” referring to the work of A.N. Timofeev “Nervous-mental disorders during alcohol intoxication.” , Uglov also included rock music, the spread of which, in his opinion, is supported by the Order of the Illuminati.

Over the past four decades, the world has been invisibly, but more and more perceptibly, destroying consciousness, and through it, morality as the highest and most responsible function of the intellect. Perhaps for the first time in the history of mankind, music, songs and rock and roll stars were chosen for this sabotage.

At first, no one took this music seriously. It was believed that this was another fashion that would soon pass, as was the case with the Charleston, boogie-woogie and twist. But, as Jean Paul Regimbal writes, “The socio-cultural phenomenon of rock and roll, which emerged in the early fifties, unleashed such a wave of dirt, slag and human sacrifice on the world that thirty years later it became the most powerful destructive force for body, soul and heart that has ever been came from the depths of hell itself.”

Music can be music, that is, one of the highest forms of art, only when it keeps pace with progress and even points to it the right way. Meanwhile, progress is necessarily directed along the path of goodness, humanism, human relations with each other, friendship and mutual understanding. Progress is the creation of a better, nobler, accessible to all people. This is why music is given great importance in nurturing the best qualities of the human soul.

Aristotle wrote: “Music is capable of having a certain effect on the ethical side of the soul. And since music has such properties, it should be included among the subjects of youth education.”

Of course, the person who is more prepared for it understands and loves music more, that is, the one who has musical education or natural abilities and interest in music. It is enough to point out martial music, which raises people into battle stronger than a verbal order. Appropriate music is used as a healing factor in a number of medical institutions.

However, music built on the frequency and strength of sound, beyond the limits of what is easily digestible and has a beneficial effect on a person, can and does have a dramatic effect. bad influence on the psyche, intelligence and behavior of a person. And while musical training or a person’s innate abilities perceive these sounds as annoying and even challenging painful condition, in people of little culture, with rough character traits, prone to various anomalies, these sounds cause excitement, reaching the point of ecstasy.

Due to the fact that rock music has a sharply negative impact not only on the intellect, psyche, moral and ethical state of young people, but also on physical health man, I allow myself to express this issue your opinion, based not only on your own perception and understanding of this music, but also on studying scientific literature dedicated to this problem.

First of all, it must be said that not all young people, as is often said, are attracted and captivated by this music. As I already said, people (including young people) brought up on classical and folk music, perceive rock and even jazz music negative. One young woman, a doctor, with good musical abilities, told me that she, as a student at a provincial university, came to Moscow during the next boom of jazz and rock music. She decided to listen to this music in various performances. Having bought tickets for all the concerts of this kind that took place in Moscow at that time, she listened to them all, although after the first evening she no longer wanted to go there. Nevertheless, she carefully listened to all the performances - and nothing but a negative attitude towards such music! Each time it was strange and incomprehensible to her why some of the youth became ecstatic from those elements of the concert that evoked the most negative emotions in them.

Consequently, the judgment that all young people “go crazy” about this music, and only older people do not understand it, is fundamentally wrong. It's not a matter of age, but of intelligence and upbringing.

What is rock and roll, which receives so much attention from television and those newspapers that for a long time (and some to this day) have taken a position in relation to alcohol to encourage “cultural consumption”?

The development of rock and roll began in the West, in the USA, by arranging the beat rhythms and blues of the black population of the South. The term “rock and roll” itself means two movements of the human body during sexual fun and is borrowed from the African-American ghettos. The main emphasis is on the beat (a beat is a continuous repetition of regular pulsations combined with shortened rhythms, which are usually provided by a drummer and played by a bass guitar. It is the beat that characterizes the rhythm of rock music). There are hard, heavy, bad and caustic; then satanic and finally punk rock, which is also considered not the end of this ascent to madness.

Already in hard rock, the beat is perceived in such a way that it strongly excites sexual instincts and, as a rule, attracts people with sexual pathology. That's why Elvis Presley encouraged young people to cast aside sexual taboos and took pleasure in exciting the public not only with his music and words, but mainly with the obscene and provocative passages of a strongly sexual nature with which he accompanied his performances. The emotions it evoked led in a number of cases to changes in life habits, clothing, and the emergence of fashion for long hair etc. Under the influence of such musicians, indignation, frenzy, mass hysteria, and sexual excesses arose, especially among girls.

Hard rock is characterized primarily by the improvement of rhythm (beat), volume and frenzy of beats. The sound intensity reaches 120 decibels, which exceeds the limit of human hearing, which is set to an average intensity of 55 decibels, loud sound corresponds to 70 decibels. Added to the erotic pulsations of the beat is the effect of irritating noise, which by its nature leads to nervous overstrain, the appearance of an uncontrollable feeling of dissatisfaction and the desire to satisfy it at all costs. The purpose of this music is to create an ocean of frenzied sounds: drumming, cymbals, trumpets, high-pitched screams, electronic synthesizers - all combined for a decisive attack on the feverish crowd. As experts write, They don’t listen to hard rock, they immerse themselves in it in accordance with the ritual of sex, seduction and rebellion.

The 90s saw the birth of punk rock (in England the word "punk" refers to prostitutes of both sexes, Americans translate the word as "scum"), the goal and philosophy of which is to lead the audience directly to suicide, collective violence and systematic crimes. The limit of punk in the sphere of human and musical experience is the ability to inflict a bloody wound on a partner with a razor blade sewn into jeans or a shirt, and beating him, already wounded, with a bracelet covered with spikes and nails - that is, leading to the extreme degree of sexual perversion, to sadism.

Who supports, finances the development of rock music and promotes its further spread? It is believed that rock music is called upon to develop a socio-cultural, political, economic, moral and spiritual revolution. And this revolution is part of a much larger project conceived and financed by the Illuminati. The Illuminati is an old mystical order founded on May 1, 1776 by several apostates, notably Canon Rocca, the English bishop Albert Pike. This society dedicated to Satan aims at the worldwide takeover of all economic, political, military, religious and other powers with the goal of establishing one single world government. To completely dominate the youth, indifferent to politics and society, the Illuminati began to distribute rock products on a massive scale in order to ensure the worldwide distribution of the most aggressive groups. This component a global conspiracy conceived by the Illuminati, the explicit goal of which is to educate youth in the spirit of cosmopolitanism, corresponding to the rise to power of one single world government.

The consistent severance of ties with family, nationality, culture and ethics leads to the fact that young people lose their sense of belonging to society, to the country, but feel like citizens of the world without faith and law, without any responsibilities towards anyone. , except the Illuminati and Satan, although the consequences of addiction are not conscious.

This state of mind is manifested in the growing number of divorces, broken families, and the proliferation of works and social movements centered on individualization and self-gratification (egoism). This philosophy is too narrow to leave room for love, that is, one of the most beautiful and noble feelings.

The degree of influence of rock music and the spread of discos is indicated by the following data: according to the results of a survey conducted in 1981 in the USA, 87% of all teenagers spend from 3 to 5 hours a day listening to rock music. Later, the spread of this music increased even more. With the advent of more advanced equipment, they spend 7 or 8 hours doing this activity. Of the records sold annually around the world, 90% are rock music recordings (130 million per year). To this we must add another 100 million rock albums.

Is it possible that this influx of musical frenzy has no effect on the physical, psychological, mental, moral and spiritual planes on both individuals and masses? What data allow us to assess the seriousness and depth of the effect of rock and roll on young people?

I. FROM A MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW

Basal metabolism and blood sugar levels undergo changes during listening. These effects increase as the sound intensity increases. At a level above 80 decibels, the effect of music causes unpleasant sensations, at a level of 90 decibels it becomes harmful. During rock concerts, measurements show 106-108 decibels in the center of the hall and almost 120 decibels near the orchestra. Therefore, young people listening to this music experience hearing changes to a degree that is usually characteristic of people over 50 years of age.

In addition, the number of people with cardiovascular diseases and balance disorders in the body is increasing sharply.

The intensity of special lighting and the use of laser beams cause irreversible destruction of vision, since if the beam penetrates the eye, it can cause a burn to the retina, causing the formation of a blind spot. In addition, short flashes of light, following one after another to the rhythm of music, cause dizziness, nausea, and hallucinatory phenomena.

Adam Knist writes: “The main effect of rock music stems from its noise level, which causes hostility, exhaustion, narcissism (narcissism), panic, indigestion, hypertension, and unusual drug states. Rock is not a harmless pastime. Rock is a drug more deadly than heroin that is poisoning the lives of our youth.

On the sexual side, according to Larsen, the following changes occur: the low-frequency vibrations created by the efforts of the bass guitar, to which is added the repetitive action of the beat, significantly affect the state of the cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid, in turn, directly affects the glands that regulate the secretion of hormones. As a result, the balance of sex and adrenal hormones is disrupted, and a change in the level of insulin in the blood occurs. As a result, the functions of controlling moral inhibition fall below the threshold of tolerance or are completely neutralized.

B) Psychological action. No matter how destructive the physiological consequences of rock are, its psychological consequences are even more terrible, since rock music inflicts deep psycho-emotional trauma on its listeners. Here are some consequences of these injuries:

1) Change in emotional reactions resulting from curbing the desire for uncontrollable violence.
2) Loss of control over the ability to concentrate.
3) Weakening control over mental activity and will.
4) Nervous-sensory overexcitation, causing euphoria, suggestibility, hysteria and even hallucinations.
5) Serious impairment of memory, brain function and neuromuscular coordination.
6) A hypnotic or cataleptic state that turns a person into the likeness of a fool or a robot.
7) Depressive state, reaching the point of neurosis and psychosis, especially when combining rock music and drugs.
8) The tendency towards suicide and murder increases with prolonged listening to rock music.
9) Self-mutilation in its various forms, especially in large gatherings.
10) Unbridled impulses for destruction, vandalism, rebellion after concerts and rock festivals.

II. CHANGING MORALITY

The consequences of rock music are related to the main themes of rock and roll: thinking, willpower, free will and moral consciousness are subjected to such strong influence from all the senses that their powers of sound judgment and resistance are greatly blunted, and sometimes not controlled at all. In this state of moral and mental oppression, it gives the green light to the revelry of the most wild, previously suppressed impulses - hatred, anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, even murder and suicide.

The best moral and spiritual education cannot withstand for long the erosion of consciousness, heart and spirit that is caused by prolonged listening to rock music.

III. SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ROCK

Rock concerts and festivals create such mass hysteria that riots and fights break out in the midst of sensational events that spontaneously arise during a concert or public demonstration. Here are some examples. In Vancouver, Canada, it took 30 minutes for 100 people to be seriously injured in connection with a rock festival. In Cincinnati (USA) at the River Coliseum in December 1975, 11 young people were trampled to death by 10 thousand spectators who tore down barriers to enter the festival. In Melbourne, Australia, more than a thousand people were seriously injured in connection with a rock festival. 650 young people died during one weekend in Los Angeles. A report about this was made by a California television studio.

In his scientific work “Big Beat” F. Garlock wrote: “The participants in chaos and disorder could not have found a more perfect engine for transmitting and hammering their ideas and philosophy into the younger generation various countries peace. Thus, in the two countries where rock and roll is most popular, the USA and England, not only is there high level decline among young people, but also a rapid increase in the number of crimes committed by young people, the birth of illegitimate children, various types of violence, murder, suicide.”

Scientists believe that rock and roll over the past 30 years has caused such a deep corruption of youth, which has not yet been recorded in history. While billions are being spent on air and water pollution and noise control, there are no resources, no means, no strong will to overcome the moral and spiritual pollution of the youth who are victims of this vast conspiracy.

It is surprising that the authorities are helpless in the face of all kinds of troubles generated by this deadly satanic musical wave. Old truth: “Disrupt the youth and you will defeat the nation.”

From this quick review of scientific data, we see that rock and roll is not a variety, not another genre of music: it is anti-music, because not only does it not carry all the spiritual richness that is associated with this type of art, not only does it not cultivate goodness, love, friendship - all those high feelings that elevate a person and lead society to progress, but rock and roll, on the contrary, cultivates the basest, most negative feelings in a person, corrupts his morality and discards his intellectual development is far back. Moreover, by developing anger and pathological sexuality, rock music destroys people and leads to the degradation of society.

The power of rock music is aimed at the moral decay of youth; its program itself, its design and even its details contain the most perfect forms and methods for bringing listeners to moral decay and nurturing everything that is most negative and evil in a person. It is enough to give at least the content of those songs that are performed to the sounds of rock music. Here is an excerpt from the song "God of Thunder":

In order to subjugate listeners to themselves, to force them to perceive what is contrary to human essence itself, rock musicians, in addition to frantic, frenzied noise and thunder, which suppress the psyche, use lighting effects in the form of a strobe light, which is not a prop, but part of Satan’s weapon against youth. With the help of a strobe, it is possible to alternate between light and darkness, which leads to a significant weakening of orientation and the ability to judge. When light-dark alternation occurs at a frequency of 6-8 Hz, this causes a loss of depth of perception. If the alternation frequency reaches 25 Hz, the ability to concentrate is lost. With a further increase in frequency, there is a loss of all ability to control.

The combination of rock music with the play of strobe light leads to the violation of all barriers of moral judgment. The personality loses its reflexes and natural defense mechanisms.

When using exclusively specialized technical means the human being experiences violence against his defenses and freedom of judgment. Hence the mental, moral and spiritual damage experienced by the audience listening to rock music.

Considering that the beat causes an acceleration of the heart rate and an increase in the content of adrenaline in the blood, it can not only cause an appropriate reaction from the sexual sphere, but also strong excitement, reaching the point of intoxication, which is how rock musicians influence young people, and what leads to a sharp decline in the general moral level.

Thus, it must be admitted that increased attention of funds mass media to rock music cannot be assessed otherwise than as a path to the moral corruption of youth. This danger is very great and it is constantly increasing. Many who in one way or another propagate or contribute to the propagation of this corrupting music stubbornly insist that a ban can only increase the interest of young people, but the point is not only about the ban. We must first stop promoting this music. And most importantly, we need to contrast it with real music. Fill TV time and radio music of classical, folk, folklore, thematic, etc. in the very best performance. And give it not in the morning, when everyone is at work, not after midnight, but at the time when we broadcast performances of rock and roll ensembles, that is, from 18 to 22 hours. And rock and roll should be completely excluded from television and radio programs.

ETERNAL MEMORY TO THE GLORIOUS HEROES OF OUR PEOPLE!!!

More details in the book: Gennady Zabrodin, Boris Alexandrov - Rock. Art or disease?

Rock music, as we know, arose on the basis of Negro idolatry and primitive mystical chants. African sorcerers knew well the hypnotizing effects of rhythmic loud music. Its inherent beat rhythm causes certain changes in the body - it changes the pulse, breathing, blood sugar levels, and nervous excitement occurs: “... when the beats of a musical rhythm suddenly begin to coincide with the beats of your heart, it seems that a heavy bell is swinging inside you a tongue that hits your ribs, all your cells, and everything hums and rings, and either you will now take off and begin to go berserk in your movements, or you will explode and scatter into small pieces...

It was as if dense machine-gun bursts of tracer bullets (in bunches, in bunches) were hitting the arena, the dancing people, and our tables from the far corner. And all this - spinning lanterns, bunnies, beams of light, lamps flashing and extinguishing in volleys, all these whirlwinds of snow, a blizzard, a storm of multi-colored lights - all this was presented in a frantic rhythm, in blinking, corresponding to the frantic rhythm of music sounding at the limit of volume. , so you will no longer understand whether the world is spinning around you, or whether you yourself are involved in an uncontrollable spin, having gone crazy, turned inside out, freed from everything that until now made you just walk and just talking person“- this is what V. Soloukhin wrote in the story “New York. Disco" at the dawn of rock music.

Nowadays the perception of this music is becoming different. After all, more than one generation of people has been brought up in an atmosphere mass rock, and knowledge of its history, leading movements, ensembles, singers is considered very prestigious among young people.

Here we will take a closer look at some of the negative psychosocial aspects of rock culture related to issues moral education, as well as the impact of rock music on the human body. Ethologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences V. Dolnik believes that if a mass managed to create a powerful rhythm, it is united. Remember the miracle of the birth of a synchronized rhythm of applause in a huge hall. There is something in this from our distant ancestors, from the feeling of herd. The child tries to play “okay” before he begins to speak. Music companies, the “noisemakers” of teenagers, are also close to this. Contemporary pop music is spreading, apparently, in connection with the need to organize such a company. The mechanism of extra-rational communication and subconscious unity operates here. The roots of the mass passion for rock music must also be sought among the causes of mass drunkenness and similar phenomena. “The hysteria of rock,” writes journalist M. Dunaev, “is the cry of the soul of a bitter consumer who has failed to find the true purpose of life. And this confirms the primitiveness, meaninglessness, and poverty of the song vocabulary of individual rock compositions. "Ooo! You and me! Ooo! Me and you!..” - repeated many times in one of the rock songs. The term rock and roll itself (literally: rock - movement or cliff in the surf) is a slang word from the black ghettos of America, denoting the movements of the human body during sexual intercourse. “The King of Rock” Elvis Presley excited thrill-seeking youth with obscene gestures during his performances. By the way, as you know, he turned into a degraded drug addict and very soon died from this vice.

At various times, such rock music celebrities as singer Janis Joplin, guitarist of the group " Rolling Stones» Brian Jones, Hu drummer Keith Moon, virtuoso guitarist Jimi Hendrix, Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and others. One of the trends - “punk rock” calls for suicide and violence, crime and drugs: “I kill children, whom I like to see bloodied. I make their mothers cry and crush them with cars. “I feed the kids poisoned candy,” sing the punks from the group “Dead Kennedy” to the sound of thunder and screeching. Why do young people rush in thousands to the stadium, to discos, where in the roar of decibels, the rhythm electronic guitars do they get the illusion of communication, a team, an ideal, the meaning of life? It is known that music, like other forms of art, affects the personality at four levels: physiological (it’s not for nothing that music is now used in operating rooms), emotional (impact on mood), intellectual (“under good music I think well..."), spiritual and moral. Rock - social phenomenon, not just musical genre. In our country, more than 90% of urban schoolchildren are consumers of pop music. Composer K. Volkov notes that the term “musical addiction” is not only ideological, but also medical, since such music in the conditions of a light-color-noise disco not only excites the nervous system, but also finds a certain resonance in the cellular structures of the body, which is subjective feels like stupefying, a narcotic effect, and in the long term leads to neuropsychic abnormalities. Doctor psychological sciences A. Popov and E. Savolei analyzed the connection between rock music and processes in the human body and psyche. Damage to the organs of vision, hearing, spinal cord function, endocrine and nervous system listeners. This is largely due to the volume of rock music, which lies outside the psychophysiological norm. Let us remember that sound louder than 90 decibels already becomes harmful, and the sound of rock music reaches 120 decibels near an orchestra.

Due to the fact that certain types of modern entertainment music are strong irritants that cause the release of stress hormones, “erasing” part of the information imprinted in the brain and contributing to impaired neuromuscular coordination, the emergence of neurosis, as well as unbridled impulses. Modulation of the rhythm frequency, music and alternation of light and darkness cause an acceleration of the heart rate and an increase in adrenaline in the blood. Researchers have shown that at a frequency of 6 - 8 vibrations per second, depth of perception is lost, and at a frequency of 25 vibrations per second, flashes of light coincide with the frequency of brain biocurrents, which leads to loss of orientation and control over one’s behavior. The effect of high frequencies in the ultrasonic range cannot be excluded. When the brain is exposed to this effect, biochemical reactions occur in it, similar to those caused by the introduction of morphine. There are especially many high-frequency components in metal rock. Some experts believe that rock music causes a stress reaction and, accordingly, increased production of anti-stress agents, i.e., natural drug-like substances. Strengthening the activity of such systems often leads to self-narcotization. In cases where the resulting anti-stress agents are not enough, the person begins to introduce them additionally into the body. Simply put, by cultivating rock, we thereby indirectly develop drug addiction.

Rock music is like any other live music, has an impact on the psyche of the listener. And if an adult is able to endure any sounds without consequences, then the child should choose pleasant and unobtrusive melodies that evoke only positive reactions, memories, and associations.

The opinion that heavy music has a bad effect on the psyche is hopelessly outdated and completely wrong. This will be unobtrusively explained to your child in a professional musical institution, for example, at the Moskvorechye Rock Academy. Only social attitude, behavior and culture can directly affect our children. That is, if rock music is accompanied by beatings, seizures and worship of the unclean (and this is exactly what they thought at the very beginning of the emergence of this musical movement), then it will definitely not have a positive impact. But if you listen to what you like, not relying on stereotypes, but only on taste, you are unlikely to get a negative experience.

To be honest, any music, meaning only live music, is non-standard and not formatted. This applies not only to rock, but even to classical music. Both Vivaldi and Bach can be called rockers, because it was they who instilled in man the desire to create unique melodies with the help of instruments, coming straight from the heart. After all, it is from classical music that all the groups playing heavy, non-popular (not pop, as they say) music originated. The conclusion is that music itself certainly cannot have a negative impact.

But there is always a “but”! Too loud and awkward sounds, and we are talking about a slightly different direction of rock music (doom or death), can frighten a child and even deafen him if the sound is set to maximum, and the baby has never heard anything louder than his mother’s singing. Systematic listening to heavy music can have a negative impact on the psyche only if you force the child to listen to what his friends or parents like, for example. You should always take into account the preferences of the baby, and even if it is rock music, and the child is still very young, do not forbid it, just select slow melodies, with beautiful vocals, playing an instrument. Perhaps, listening to such songs, the child will become interested in guitar, drums or singing, because rock musicians are real pros in the use of such complex instruments.

As you know, not every Musical direction has a positive effect on the human body. When discussing this pattern, we can take modern rock music as an example. This musical style has its own distinctive features or means of influencing the psyche:

• 1. Hard rhythm
• 2. Monotonous repetitions
• 3. Volume, superfrequencies
• 4. Light effect

There have been cases where an excess of high or low frequencies seriously injured the brain. Sound shock, sound burns, hearing and memory loss are common at rock concerts. Volume plus frequency reached such destructive power that in 1979, during a Paul McCartney concert in Venice, a wooden bridge collapsed, and the Pink Floyd group managed to destroy a bridge in Scotland. The same group also has another documented “achievement”: an outdoor concert resulted in a stunned fish surfacing in a nearby lake. Both rhythm and frequency “lead” to dependence on them: a person has a need for increasingly higher frequencies, approaching ultrasound. And this is already fraught with death, and the mortality rate was recorded by American doctors. There is also a growing need to increase the tempo of the rhythm.

Group " The Beatles” played at a power level of 500-600 watts. By the end of the 60s, the Doors reached 1000 watts. And a few years later, 20-30 thousand watts became the norm. “AC/DC” already worked at the level of 70 thousand. But this is not the limit. Is it a lot or a little? Quite a lot, because even a hundred watts in a small room can affect a person’s ability to think and analyze.

Immersion in a sound bag affects the ability to navigate and make independent decisions. Russian scientists have recorded the following: after 10 minutes of listening to hard rock, seventh-graders forgot their multiplication tables for a while. And Japanese journalists in the largest rock halls in Tokyo arbitrarily asked the audience only three simple questions: what is your name? where are you at? what year is it now? And none of the respondents answered them. According to the statement of the German professor B. Rauch, during such sound stress, a stress hormone - adrenaline - is released from the kidneys (adrenal glands). This process occurs in every stressful situation. But the impact of the stimulus does not stop and there is an overproduction of adrenaline, which erases some of the information imprinted in the brain. A person does not simply forget something that happened to him or that he studied. He is mentally deteriorating. Not long ago, Swiss doctors proved that after a rock concert a person’s orientation and reaction to a stimulus is 3 to 5 times worse than usual. When adrenaline is overproduced, it partially breaks down into adrenochrome. This is a new chemical compound, which in its effect on the human psyche is compared to a drug. This is a kind of internal psychedelic (mind-altering) drug, similar to mescaline or psilocybin.

Aggressive rock plays special, consecutive rhythms that lead the audience to an ecstatic experience. The rhythm persistently excites all emotional, physical and physiological pulsations, causing strong excitement of the nervous system and paralysis of the thought process. Our ear is tuned to perceive normal sound at 55-60 decibels. The loud sound will be 70 decibels. But crossing all thresholds of normal perception, a strong sound in intensity causes incredible auditory stress. The sound volume at the site, where walls with powerful speakers used during rock concerts are installed, reaches 120 dB, and in the middle of the site up to 140-160 dB. (120 dB corresponds to the volume of the roar of a jet plane taking off in close proximity, and the average values ​​for a player with headphones are 80-110 dB.) The impact of ultra-loud sounds on the human body is destructive - experts call such music “killer music”, “sound poison” . Added to the exciting pulsations of the rhythm is the bewitching effect of irritating noise, which by its nature leads to nervous tension. Drumming, guitars, trumpets, electronic synthesizers, lighting effects, piercing screams, body movements - all this bursts in with all the ferocious force and permeates the sensitive human body. Many ancient peoples used similar rhythms beaten on big drum, carried out the execution.

Accelerating the alternation of stage light and darkness leads to a significant weakening of orientation and a decrease in reflex reaction speed. At a certain speed, flashes of light begin to interact with the brain's alpha waves, which control the ability to concentrate. At further growth frequency there is a complete loss of control.

Physiological disorders are changes in pulse and breathing, effects on the centers of the spinal cord (the autonomic nervous system associated with the unconscious sphere of the personality), changes in vision, attention, hearing, blood sugar, increased secretion of endocrine glands. The American Bob Larsen Physician Group states categorically: “The low-frequency vibrations created by the amplification of the bass guitar, to which is added the repetitive action of the rhythm, have a significant effect on the condition of the cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid, in turn, directly affects the glands that regulate hormone secretions, and the level of insulin in the blood changes significantly. As a result, the balance of sex and adrenal hormones is disrupted so that the various functions of controlling moral inhibition fall below the threshold of tolerance or are completely neutralized.” The perception of musical rhythm is also associated with the functions of the auditory-motor system. And flashes of light, following one after another to the rhythm of music, stimulate mechanisms associated with hallucinatory phenomena, dizziness, and nausea. But the main effect is aimed at the brain and is designed to suppress consciousness. It is similar to that achieved by drugs. The dominant rhythm first captures the motor center of the brain, then stimulates some hormonal functions of the endocrine system. But the main blow is aimed at those parts of the brain that are closely related to human sexual functions.

It is impossible to expose yourself to fate for a long time without getting deep psycho-emotional trauma. In this case, there is a loss of control over the ability to concentrate, control over mental activity and will is significantly weakened, unbridled impulses lead to destruction, vandalism and rebellion, especially at large gatherings. The ability to make sound judgment is greatly affected; it turns out to be greatly dulled, and sometimes even completely neutralized.

Plants and animals prefer harmonious music. If classical music accelerates the growth of wheat, then rock music does the opposite. If under the influence of classical music the amount of milk in nursing mothers and mammals increases, then under the influence of rock music it sharply decreases. Dolphins enjoy listening to classical music, especially Bach. Having heard classical works, sharks calm down and gather from all over the ocean coast (which happened during experiments); Plants and flowers spread their leaves and petals faster to classical music. To the sounds of heavy rock, cows lie down and refuse to eat, and plants quickly wither.

A number of scientific studies have been specifically devoted to the question of the possible connection between listening to music and certain type with the tendency of children and young people to suicidal, aggressive or illegal behavior. The most problematic genres were rap and heavy metal.

Heavy metal fans showed less pronounced cognitive needs, as well as positive attitude to smoking, drinking alcohol and drugs, promiscuous sex and antisocial behavior. Punk rock fans were hostile various kinds authorities, a disposition to carry and use weapons and petty shoplifting, and a tolerant attitude towards the possibility of ending up in prison.

The researchers also assessed the influence of the “heavy metal” genre with sexually aggressive content on the attitude of young men towards women, the level of sexual arousal, and approval of violence against women. The subjects listened to three types of music: heavy metal of the sexually aggressive and “Christian” variety and light classical music. Regardless of the content of the lyrics, listening to “heavy metal” music reinforces the cult of “masculinity” and a negative attitude towards women. Unexpectedly, it was discovered that classical music increases the level of sexual arousal more.