listening to springsteen makes you racist.. WTF!?

catefrances

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

hedonist

Agh!

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"

peacefrompaul

Oddly enough I don't like Springsteen or The White Stripes.

Weird study

peacefrompaul

catefrances wrote:

also bet you didnt know the white stripes were mainstream rock...but i digress...

Yeah. Icky Thump and Seven Nation Army are on the radio all the time... That's pretty much it.

hedonist

peacefrompaul wrote:

Oddly enough I don't like Springsteen or The White Stripes.

Weird study

Et tu, Brute?


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!

peacefrompaul

hedonist wrote:

peacefrompaul wrote:

Oddly enough I don't like Springsteen or The White Stripes.

Weird study

Et tu, Brute?


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.

Nevermind90

or anti.

Godfather.

what a crock of shit, this is one of those "for enterainment value only stories".

Godfather.

bennett13

This is why I never trust those "studies" they keep reporting about.

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.

CH156378

on a side note, the new springsteen album is amazing

cincybearcat

COuld it be that the "white group" was actually an agriculture group and they thought maybe more $ should go to figuring out providing healthy food to all?

They other groups are basically, information share groups, no? It seems like it's a different between an applied science and 3 history classes.

mydogmookieblaylock

"According to The Daily Mail those that had listened to Top 40 garbage such as Akon and Gwen Stefani"

rude

Monster Rain

How is "Rural and Agricultural Studies" a "white group?" Do only white people live in rural areas and eat things that come from farms? Hmmm, it sounds like the people conducting the study might be the ones who are racist and they don't even realize it.

Jason P

I always thought my racism was tied to my deep-seeded personal insecurities. Now I know it's The Boss' fault.

Thanks a lot, Bruce Springsteen ... prick ...

Monster Rain

Jason P wrote:

I always thought my racism was tied to my deep-seeded personal insecurities. Now I know it's The Boss' fault.

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.

hedonist

Monster Rain wrote:

Jason P wrote:

I always thought my racism was tied to my deep-seeded personal insecurities. Now I know it's The Boss' fault.

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.

Ha! You two

Pepe Silvia

peacefrompaul wrote:

catefrances wrote:

also bet you didnt know the white stripes were mainstream rock...but i digress...

Yeah. Icky Thump and Seven Nation Army are on the radio all the time... That's pretty much it.

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......

unlost dogs

Well, duh. The "WHITE" Stripes? Clearly racist. It would be more politically correct and culturally sensitive if they were "The Multihued Stripes."

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."

bennett13

And the Beatles had the "White Album" too...if you play "Revolution 9" backwards you clearly hear "Paul has been dead for years...white power! white power!"

Jason P

unlost dogs wrote:

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.

I thought that was Steven Van Zandt's role. :think:

Johnny Abruzzo

When I play Coltrane I just start stuffing envelopes with twenties and mailing it off to the NAACP.