Dancehall Music Affect The Society Negatively?
A Greek philosopher once said, "In argument, truth is born." Even though sometimes feelings and emotions come into play that confuse the issue at hand, usually an argument results in a new insight on the subject. Even if a person holds strong views that are unshaken by anything his adversary may say, he may nevertheless gain from the debate. It forces him to organize and analyze his views, leaving him with a clearer understanding of the subject than before. Further, his opponent's arguments help him better appreciate his views and their differences. Finally, the argument forces both to look inwards, at their character and value system. For these reasons, I enjoy debating issues that are important to me and of which I hold strong views. One such issue receiving great national attention is the negative effect of Dancehall music on the society. While music and culture has always been important to the Jamaican community on a whole, and more specifically to the inner-city communities where the music is a major part of their socializing and recreational activity, the focus has been shifted from the point of origin of Dancehall music’s content to spotlight its destination, as well as cowardly intensify debates around it, knowing that
The fallacy of this argument is that it doesn't differentiate between belief and action and leads to what I term as unfortunate loss in cultural and civic pride, as a country is divided between its own culture and that of others. Finally, the assassination attempt on genres of music originating from the ghettoes of Kingston and St. Andrew has failed before in the past and so far it has failed once again with Dancehall. Earlier victims to this racism that now befalls Dancehall are Ska, Rocksteady and Mento, its ancestors. Those ancestors, where music of the lower working or social class citizens, with which, the upper class would dare not associate themselves. The stigma appeared, that the popularity of these genres was a threat to the high-class communities, and threatened to disregard their dominatrix opinions as to what was acceptable and right for the society. not many scholars or professors are entrenched in this genre. What all of these stigmas have in common is that they forsake logical and objective debate, opting rather for emotions, generalizations, accusations and selfish motives. And the danger of that happening is the main lesson to be learned. While those debates have shed new light on the issue and have forced me to reconsider what I think is moral and just, most importantly they have demonstrated the necessity of objectiveness and removal of emotions from the discussion, especially when, as in the case of Dancehall, thousands of lives are at stake. When emotions, and personal preferences are accompanied with domination and mixed with education, the end result desired is u
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