Wow where do I begin... I totally disagree with Bloom. I can give him credit for being so into philosophy but I disagree that rock music “ruins the imagination of young people and makes it difficult for them to have a passionate relationship”. I would have personal support to back this up and explain my reasoning. I feel that all children are passionate and full of imagination. Rock music could never take that away from them. I feel we are all creative spirits and that as children we are able to act out our fantasies, as far as pretending you’re a fairy princess or super hero and acting it out, I don’t feel that adults do that enough, so because were creative souls we naturally can rule out that rock music takes that away.
I as a child grew up listening to tons of rock music. I today am very imaginative and am an actress and I love with passion. I also feel that many children imagine being big rock stars so rock music is influential in a positive manor. There is a sense of pleasure to children when they listen to music. They smile move their head or feet to the beat of music when they hear it. This is always a positive sign and shows a child’s comprehension.
I also felt for Bloom to say “because students cannot hear what the great tradition has to say they find they are deaf” is pretty profound. Bloom seems like he is a traditional man raised that way but he is also closed minded. Times are changing in how people live today and a ton of tradition has been thrown out the window. I feel you need to be an open minded person to accept the change in time and adapt to certain things or learn not to judge harshly. There is nothing wrong with liberalism, I feel that alone has open mindedness and shows how not to judge so harshly. Liberalism is a map of how time has changed and tradition is out the door.
Do I think other readers will agree with Bloom absolutely! I can say that both liberal and conservative readers would agree with him. There are still some families that do fallow tons of tradition and choose to live their lives like that. They may not like rock music because of what they think it stands for so they blame music. I think that there is always a yin to every yang, so agreements and disagreements will always stay balanced.
Music shouldn’t be to blame the liberalism or nontraditional ways have been downplayed. Music should make one feel alive or emotion. Music should communicate ways of hearing everyone’s voice. I have said it before that music soothes the soul, but it does not deafen our future. Rock music is just a genre that communicates stories and opinions with their lyrics instruments and emotions. I feel that music isn’t to blame for loss of tradition, but that how generations are moving forward to the next thing.
I really like the way you express your opionion in your blog. I feel the same way you do. I was taken back by how bloom was so judgemental of people and how they feel about their music.
ReplyDeleteI feel you have a nitch for writing. I really understand and get where you are going with what you are writing. Good Job. I look forward to reading your blogs every week. :)
Hey I really enjoyed reading your blog. I like your style of writing. I agree with you on how bloom says that rock music “ruins the imagination young people and makes it difficult for them to have a passionate relationship with art.” Even I personally do not really listen to rock music, I don’t believe that rock music can have that much power over kids and cause them to ruin their imagination. I like the point you made when you said that kids dream of being rock stars and rock music for them can be influence then in a positive way. Also think that there are a lot of other people who would agree with bloom. I believe that reason why kids aren’t interested in the traditions is because of the way they were raised. It is a new generation where kids’ whole life does revolve around music and that has become their traditions. They look up to their favorite artists. And the reason is because the music they listen to makes them feel better it doesn’t rob them of their imagination if anything I believe it makes them use their imagination even more because every time they listen to a song they will imagine it playing in their head.(inner thoughts)
ReplyDeleteMusic is a very important medium that people use to express emotion. Blooms over exaggerated view points make one think that kids can be brain washed by rock music. Its true kids are very passionate about music, I mean when I make fun of my nephew for liking ghetto rap about ice cream paint jobs and Houston oilers it makes me think " THIS DUDE AINT SERIOUS" but I know that music does not completely control people only the weak minded. Also both liberals and conserveted people would agree complety that kids are easily influened but the kid has to live in a completely bad environment to exactly obtain the negative influences that affect kids. Liberlism and traditional points of view mean little to nothing in the artistic forms of life artistic points of life are based off of the persons inner feelings every human being can feel and have the same emotion despite their sociologic background. Bloom is very closed mind and his opinions are not expanded on by the rubbish that he states . But I also think maybe if he elaborated more on a singular point he could have made a more convincing argument that kids are affected by rock music in certain ways.
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