Studying an impoverished deep-south town for suicide rates and looking for links to suicide with country music is very different from scanning a neighborhood in an upscale part of Tennesee or Arizona, just for the sake of an example.
Also, people that have non-linked problems with suicidal thoughts or depression might listen to country music as a disposition towards listening to music that coincides with their negative thoughts, as any type of music under the sun can have its more soulful yet sad or depressing communities of sound and artists.
In fact, sad music can have an uplifting effect on mood, and positive music can do the opposite. I am still very skeptical that there is an actually link between country music and suicide. The one study alone does not reveal enough information to make an educated conclusion. The study has not taken into account third variables. This is because the study was an observation, not an experiment. Here is the country heat map. Country music seems to be popular in the Las Vegas area and the Nashville area.
I can already think of many confounding variables that might skew the results of your study in the Las Vegas area. For instance, gambling might increase suicide rates. Either way, this is still a very interesting topic. However, many more studies need to be taken in order to properly claim this theory true. I think this is a very interesting correlation.
Country music is my favorite type of music; my friend and I listened to it for four hours straight coming back to state from home last weekend. I think studies conducted should look more into other variables like the economic status of the people who listen to country music.
Get out your hankies — these songs full of heartaches, departed loved ones, and everyday tragedies are guaranteed to turn on the tears. Next time you're feeling down, tune in to your favorite country music station.
Listening to Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, and Tim McGraw cataloging broken hearts, sick children, and lives that ended too soon can give you a cathartic release like no other. Read on for a list of the 10 most depressing country songs. It tells the story of an elderly man whose home in Birmingham, Ala. When a young reporter asks him how he feels about the loss of his house, the man replies:. This Brad Paisley song focuses on a classic country figure — a man with a broken heart who drinks to drown his sorrows.
She also turns to alcohol to forget, until years later she, too, commits suicide. She is found clinging to a picture of her former lover. His daughter says:. Country Music, eh? What about the other kind of music? You know Regardless of the fact that this study was a terribly gross abuse of someone's funding, I wonder what brand of Country music they studied.
For instance, I could understand increased suicide rates being a product of minds saturated in Garth Brooks and Trace Atkins If there is any truth in this postulation it makes me feel sad for our Western Civilisation that some people are moved to such a depth of dispair as to lead to suicide based on such shallowness as found in country music. Sorry to say this but the music itself is rather void of any depth and meaning and the words are mostly corny and sentimental.
Samuel Barber's Adagio from his string quartette, the second movement of Beethoven's 3rd symphony, the adagietto from Mahler's 5th symphony, to mention but a few pieces, are stirringly sad pieces but also life enhancing. But then I suppose it has to do with one's education and culture. It's probably got more to do with the disappearance of the manufacturing sector than anything else. Marthinus, way to go with the completely shallow generalization of an entire genre of music.
I'm pretty sure my 13 year old niece could not have done a better job. She wouldn't have been as condescending about it, though. I don't especially love country, but there are a lot of great songs in the genre, and a lot talent. Even that a non-country fan like me can appreciate. Patsy Cline? Beethoven has nothing on her voice ;. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash?
You don't have to like them, but just because they aren't Beethoven doesn't mean they didn't have talent or anything valuable to say. Complete and utter rubbish. There are Country songs that might move you to tears, but suicide? And Marthinus, get your heard out of your rear end and get with the times. There's probably more people listen to Country than Classical, and no doubt more deaths attributed to listening to Classical, given the old style's stuffs tendency to bore you to death.
I do not believe this study is completely correct. I committed suicide, but I had never listen to any country music in my life. The amount of time devoted to country music airplay in a local area is the result of market research.. The reason country music may cause or correlate with more suicide is because it reiterates old and unhealthy values to people who believe in old and unhealthy values, like homophobia, getting married, women staying home, drinking excessively, eating BBQ, and going to church..
THAT would make me want to off myself.. I have been listening to country music against my will in the office I work in for about 3 weeks now and I have to say, these songs really do make me want to blow my brains all over the walls of this place. I just find this study to be funny. It just comes full circle with how all you country folk wanna blame heavy metal and "Emo" music for all the suicides in the world.
I found these comments on our paper rather interesting. Just a few notes though: 1. The kind of study that is more rigorous than the kind of statistical analysis of data that we did is controlled experiments. It is simply unethical and illegal to conduct a controlled experiment where the dependent variable is suicide. The nature of country music has changed substantially since the country music that was popular during the late 's which was the time the data were collected for our paper.
Country music has become less likely to focus on depressing life events and has become more popular. An exception is "Whiskey Lullaby" by Paisley and Kraus. Mortality data has recently been made available for the time "Whiskey Lullaby" was popular and became quite popular. This country song clearly shows suicide as a way to escape the problems of an unsatisfactory life. I collected data on the number of times this song was played on the country radio stations in metropolitan areas during the year after it was released and I will soon be merging the data on the times this song was played on radios with suicide data to see if suicides rates increased in the metropolitan areas where this song was played the most.
I am a harpist, composer and classical music fan. I sneered at country for a long time but have recently found myself drawn to it. You are a complete moron, but maybe I can enlighten you. Country music and classical music come from the same source, which is human emotion.
The difference is that classical music has complex harmonies and usually no words, whereas country music tends to have simple harmonies and words that speak very directly about people's experiences, with little in the way of metaphor or allusion. You call country music "shallow" because it's simple. But there are benefits to simplicity in music. Classical music has turned itself into a niche market for snobs who pride themselves on being the only ones to appreciate its complexity.
Its lack of words makes interpretation very much open to debate. Country music, with its bare-bones harmonies and direct lyrics, keeps the focus on the story behind the song. And those stories are ones that ordinary people can relate to. Maybe more country fans would listen to classical music if it wasn't for assholes like you, who want to keep it your exclusive private club.
I believe correlation does not imply causation definitely fits this case. That's going to be the biggest argument about this case. Furthermore, Stack and Gundlach note that many of these topics have strong links to increased rates of suicidal thoughts.
However, Stack and Gundlach suggest that stress themes common in country music can lead to an increased risk among people with preexisting suicidal moods. Critics of the original study suggest that reverse causality could be at play.
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