How Can an Individual's Sense of Identity be Communicated Through Their Choice of Music?
How Can an Individual’s Sense of Identity be Communicated Through Their Choice of Music?
In today’s society individuality can be expressed in many different ways. The use of physical adornments such as clothes and makeup are the first things that spring to mind when discussing ways and methods of identification. However, with the mass media having such a huge influence on the young people of today, it is becoming very easy to determine one’s identity through the music they enjoy listening to. This essay seeks to determine how an individual identity can be clearly communicated through choices of music.
To a certain extent, music has had an interesting effect on the way individuals express their sense of identity. The 1960’s Mods and Rockers are a good example of this. Two different types of people existing in the same society, who were easily distinguished to the type of clothing they wore and their social activities- it could be argued that this has certain relevance to tastes in music. The Mods were, of course, happy to settle for the newly released music of the time. Whereas the Rockers weren’t satisfied with the new renditions and so preferred to stick with classic rock music. This eventuated in the two groups leading wholly different ways of life, and the appearances and attitudes of both groups became a likeness of the particular ‘identities’ which are recognizable in society today.
