How Does Music Affect Teenagers

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• Proyect part 2 - Module 8

Final Project Milestone 3: Midterm: First Draft of Final Project

Instructor’s Name:

Juan Ortiz Jr.

Course Title and Number:

Academic Thought and Expression in a Technological World

Student:

Luis Daniel Terán García

Introduction

1. Current Problem: In a musical group, the participants relate to the rest of the group and learn to work in an interdependent team, increasing the social dimension of the individual in an environment of solidarity, responsibility and respect, knowing how this takes place.

1. Population/Area of Focus: Music as a means of social integration and impact on teenagers and adults

1. Key Terms:     Develop a project of social integration through music

To know what impact symphonic music has on young people and adults.

Music plays an essential role in the lives of adolescents and promotes the development of communication and social integration. The objective of this work is to develop a project to know forms of social integration and know what impact it has on people's lives. There are many initiatives that aim to be an example of social action through music because its international impact has been enormous. The functioning and social repercussion through music is analyzed; Learning with own interpretation and collective participation to avoid social exclusion of children and adolescents at risk. Likewise, it is aimed especially at the young population in unfavorable social situations.

Thesis Statement:

A. Music is a universal language of communication understood by all that connects the continents and overcomes distances and cultures:

 It reaches the depths of people by transferring a feeling, an experience, an idea that, in one way or another, causes an internal movement in the human being.

B. The power of music in the human being:

Music stimulates the brain for the creation of new ideas as well as to conciliate the dream. It helps us, depending on the musical genre and type of melody, to manage stress or make us feel alive.

C. Music and our brain:

Dr. Daniel Levitin, a neuro scientist specialized in music, states in his book "This is your brain in music" that this discipline affects many parts of the vital organ, in a very profound way. Listening to a happy song, for example, can help lift our spirits, while a sad song will have the opposite effect.

D. Our brain interprets music in three different areas:

1. The rhythm is interpreted by the left frontal cortex, the left parietal cortex and the right cerebellum.

2. The tone is processed in the pre-frontal cortex, cerebellum and temporal lobe.

3. Finally, the letter is deciphered by the Wemicke area, the Broca area, the motor cortex, the visual cortex and the areas corresponding to the emotional responses.

4. Music stimulates almost all our brain and influences the development of intelligence.

Supporting major points

1. Minor Point 1:

Music is one of the most intimate creative expressions of being, which is part of the daily work of any human group both for its aesthetic enjoyment and its functional and social nature. Music identifies us as beings, as groups and as a culture, as well as the identity roots as well as the geographical location and historical epochs. It is an undeniable and irreplaceable aspect of humanity that determines us as such "(Angel, Camus and Mansilla, 2008: 18).

1. Minor Point 2:

The musical art is revealed as an eminently social discipline, since it has been creating a long time of history, it is created by and for groups of people that assume social roles in their relationship with music, the participants of a musical event interact among themselves and it is destined to a certain public that is conceived as a social group with tastes (Hormigos y Cabello, 2004: 24).

1. Minor Point 3:

The musical phenomenon is not so important for its cultural value, but also for being a dynamic element that participates in the social life of the person, and at the same time the configuration (Martí, 2000:98).

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