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Attitudes towards race, gender and sexuality through Television and Music As technology advances the media becomes an increasingly more important and impressionable way for people to receive information and be entertained. ... Television and radio are the two most popular forms of consumable media. ... Through television and music society’s prevailing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and race can be reinforced, but at the same time can also produce public debate concerned with these issues. Music was primarily considered for radio. Now with the introduction of television music programs and stations, such as Channel V and MTV, music is considered popular in both mediums. ... The issues presented through music may not be as defined as that of television programs, but it is clear that problems are still apparent. Gender deals with how men and women are portrayed. In this case it is through their music, or their video clips. ... Bands such as Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, N*Sync, Destiny’s Child and 5ive entered the music scene. These gender specific bands focussed their music either on the opposite sex or on the power of their own sex. The female bands were the ones who focussed more on the superiority and survival of their sex. Songs like Survivor and Independent Women (Destiny’s Child, 2000) by Destiny’s Child shook the boy bands from their pedestals, while they sung more about their everlasting love for members of the female sex. ... The clothes they wore could also be linked to the sexual representation of music. Sexuality refers to how sex or sexuality is portrayed through an artist, their lyrics or their video clips. Radio is a medium that has the ability to hide the image of an artist/musician; therefore the portrayal of sexuality is directed more towards the outside image of the artist, and their film clips. In many cases of new talent now it doesn’t seem to be about the music. Voices and music can now be digitally altered with to produce a good sound. ... Now music seems to be more about the image. The younger generation if far more likely to turn their noses up at artists who created their conservative careers through their musical talents, like Elton John and Celine Dion, rather than at someone who looks good and may have a ‘funky tune’. ... It is also now becoming an increasingly popular trend to move from television stars, mainly from soaps, to musical artists. This began with hit sister sensations Kylie and Dannii Minogue leaving television to pursue careers in music. Now, recent moves towards musical careers include Holly Valence, Delta Goodrem, Kelly Osbourne and Rebecca Cartright who have gained their popular image from their television programs already and make it big with the release of their first single, whether any good or not. Singers, like most other ‘talented’ people have now become society’s sex objects. ... Both artists started their careers through their talents. ... The idea of a male sex object became most noticeable through former music star Peter Andre. The bare chest is a look that works well in the music industry, but should our society really have to be like that? The audiences are not concerned at all with the race of the artist. |
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