listening to springsteen makes you racist.. WTF!?
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also bet you didnt know the white stripes were mainstream rock...but i digress...
Study Says Listening To Rock n’ Roll Makes You Racist
Written by Nicholas Jones on 7 March 2012
Time to dust off your pitchforks and raise up your fists, there’s a new university ‘study’ in town and this time they’ve got their sights on The White Stripes and Bruce Springsteen claiming listening to their music makes you racist subconsciously.
Here’s how they came to that conclusion. Participants in the University of Minnesota study were told to wait in a room while music played in the background, seven minutes later they were then called in to another room to participate in what they thought was the real study – dividing money between different ethnic-based college groups.
During their time waiting the participants were not allowed to have access to any other media, including music players, computers, phones or reading materials.
The participants were given the option to distribute their tuition money however they wished between four student groups – called the Centres of African American Studies, Latino American Studies, Arab American Studies, and Rural and Agricultural Studies.
According to The Daily Mail those that had listened to Top 40 garbage such as Akon and Gwen Stefani while in the waiting room split their funds basically evenly between the four groups, about 25 percent each.
However those who had listened to mainstream rock such as Bruce Springsteen and The White Stripes while in the waiting room gave about 35 percent of the funds to the white-American group and the remainder split evenly amongst the other three groups.
“Rock music is generally associated with white Americans, so we believe it cues white listeners to think about their positive association with their own in-group,” said Heather LaMarre, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication. “That was enough for them to show more support for a student group representing mostly whites.”
Associate professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick added, “Music has a lot of power to influence our thoughts and actions, more than we often recognise. It has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our own group, and sometimes negative biases toward others.”
Knobloch-Westerwick also believes that even if rock n roll has no race-related lyrics as most mainstream songs dont, it had a strong effect implying the genre has as much effect on us as lyrical content.
“It shows that it is not just the lyrics that matter,” she said. “Good, old-fashioned rock and roll – with no incendiary or hateful lyrics at all – was enough of a cue to increase the percentage of money allocated for the white-American group.”
“This appears to be the first study to show that music genre itself, not just the lyrics, has the potential to be a very powerful influence on people.”
http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/industr ... racist.htm
Study Says Listening To Rock n’ Roll Makes You Racist
Written by Nicholas Jones on 7 March 2012
Time to dust off your pitchforks and raise up your fists, there’s a new university ‘study’ in town and this time they’ve got their sights on The White Stripes and Bruce Springsteen claiming listening to their music makes you racist subconsciously.
Here’s how they came to that conclusion. Participants in the University of Minnesota study were told to wait in a room while music played in the background, seven minutes later they were then called in to another room to participate in what they thought was the real study – dividing money between different ethnic-based college groups.
During their time waiting the participants were not allowed to have access to any other media, including music players, computers, phones or reading materials.
The participants were given the option to distribute their tuition money however they wished between four student groups – called the Centres of African American Studies, Latino American Studies, Arab American Studies, and Rural and Agricultural Studies.
According to The Daily Mail those that had listened to Top 40 garbage such as Akon and Gwen Stefani while in the waiting room split their funds basically evenly between the four groups, about 25 percent each.
However those who had listened to mainstream rock such as Bruce Springsteen and The White Stripes while in the waiting room gave about 35 percent of the funds to the white-American group and the remainder split evenly amongst the other three groups.
“Rock music is generally associated with white Americans, so we believe it cues white listeners to think about their positive association with their own in-group,” said Heather LaMarre, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication. “That was enough for them to show more support for a student group representing mostly whites.”
Associate professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick added, “Music has a lot of power to influence our thoughts and actions, more than we often recognise. It has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our own group, and sometimes negative biases toward others.”
Knobloch-Westerwick also believes that even if rock n roll has no race-related lyrics as most mainstream songs dont, it had a strong effect implying the genre has as much effect on us as lyrical content.
“It shows that it is not just the lyrics that matter,” she said. “Good, old-fashioned rock and roll – with no incendiary or hateful lyrics at all – was enough of a cue to increase the percentage of money allocated for the white-American group.”
“This appears to be the first study to show that music genre itself, not just the lyrics, has the potential to be a very powerful influence on people.”
http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/news/industr ... racist.htm
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First, rock n roll is based at least/most partly on blues, which is a black AND white thing.
But sheesh...what a ridiculous premise. If anything, the ones mentioned are pretty fucking openminded.
I dunno...guess I just love own my "in group"
Weird study
Yeah. Icky Thump and Seven Nation Army are on the radio all the time... That's pretty much it.
The Stripes have some amazing stuff out there beyond what you've heard.
C'mon, you're a Tool fan...Jack's got some kind of amazing talent too!
Certainly, I've gone through white stripes albums.
Not my thing though I praise Jack for what he does... it's his own thing.
Godfather.
I never knew I was racist until now. I guess I should stop listening to all that Hendrix, since he was a grand wizard of the KKK...or something like that.
They other groups are basically, information share groups, no? It seems like it's a different between an applied science and 3 history classes.
rude
Thanks a lot, Bruce Springsteen ... prick ...
Play "Born in the USA" backwards and it says, "Mexicans go home!" I'm on a work computer so I can't even type what you'll hear if you listen to "Darkness of the Edge of Town" backwards. It ain't pretty.
have you ever noticed how some white stripes songs sound EXACTLY like some johnny cash songs?? also, he seems to have taken a lot of fashion tips from marc bolan......
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And Springsteen's band lacks appropriate ethnic diversity. They do not, at present, have any biracial transgendered Arab-American vegan Wiccans in the lineup. Really intolerant, if you ask me.
Don't even get me started about the real meaning of Pearl Jam's "Black."
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well who wouldnt want to dress like marc bolan??
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Just to follow that Logic... if we play enough Village People at a football game... will the guys stay in the shower longer?
Same question here. This has to be the lamest study of race relations in the history of studies of race relations.
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Would the results been the same if it were 'Corporate Chief Executives Officers and Hockey Players Studies' instead?
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no.. but they may break out in spontaneous dance routines.
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Racist.
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I kid, I kid...
I know what you are saying. I would have done the same. Rural and Agricultural Studies sound like the only one that is NOT based upon racial differences.
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I guess I a racist. No wonder... I love the White (**subliminally inserted, 'Power') Stripes.
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