Music and drugs: analysis of certain topics on drugs in music
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.430Keywords:
music, adolescence, youth, drugsAbstract
Music is a key element in juvenile culture. We look at the presence of a number of topics -classified in 10 groups- related to drug dependency that we found in the lyrics of songs in four musical styles: pop, rock, punk and performers singing their own songs in a total of 323 compositions, and analysed a total of 489 references to drugs. The 10 analyzed topics are: drug addiction process, their legalisation and their relationship with “living from one day to the next”, music, with escape, drugs and leisure, amusement and free time, social and sexual relationships, their consequences and with diverse styles of life, as well as their use as metaphors and comparisons. We found a high presence of these topics in these lyrics and a wide differentiation in the treatment given to drug dependencies by the different musical styles analysed, all of which reinforces the basic hypothesis of the uncritical and cultural presence of drug use among the young, which could lead to a low risk perception.References
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