Music is played in every society and culture in the world today. Some people believe that music brings only benefits to individuals and societies. Others, however, think that music can have a negative influence on both.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Generally, music is considered to be one of the most popular and ancient modes of human expression. It features largely in all histories and all cultures and indeed has been one of the main ways of passing on cultural traditions to new generations.
Many people view music as a positive influence for societies. They also believe that the influence on individuals is wholly beneficial as it is a long-established way of communicating and helping us to understand the whole range of human emotions and experience in a more spiritual language than words can represent. However, there are different kinds of music and the qualities of classical music traditions are mot necessarily part of the music many people experience today. In the modern world, there is a huge music industry that sells piped music to supermarkets and advertisers. We are also constantly exposed to loud modern music from people’s CD players, iPods or car radios. So the view of music today as a kind of noise pollution produced by money-driven people, is also a common and negative one, but it is difficult to think of a world without music.
Certainly, there is bad music that may have negative influences, particularly on the young. But peoples’s taste in music tends to change as they get older, and of would be difficult to find someone who had no positive and negative influences on people and society, but it is an integral part of human expression that we cannot really separate from our lives.
Các cụm từ cần nhớ
– Pass on cultural traditions: truyền lại những giá trị truyền thống văn hóa
– Long-established(adj): lâu đời, có từ lâu (và vẫn tiếp tục)
– Spiritual language: ngôn ngữ về mặt nội tâm
– Piped music: nhạc nền (phát trong siêu thị hoặc nơi công cộng nào đó)
– Be exposed to: được tiếp xúc với
– Money-driven(adj): làm mọi thứ vì tiền
