Living in Harmony
Examining the normalization of drug use in music and how we can learn to be better music listeners.
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“Media literacy is when you are able to actually understand any type of media. My final takeaway is that there are a lot of hidden messages in songs that can affect us and our everyday lives.”- Participant
Recommended Grades: 9th-12th
For generations, the popular music has been criticized for explicit content and the potential negative influence it can have on the behaviors of young people. Naturally, this usually sparks a debate on artistic censorship and whether artists have a responsibility to be a positive influence- but this isn’t the question that Living in Harmony hopes to answer. Instead it asks the question, how can we improve as music listeners?
In this interactive workshop, participants will:
work in teams to analyze the ATOD related content of current popular songs
learn strategies for increasing media literacy
compete in a gameshow testing their memory of ATOD lyrics in popular songs from the last decade… and how Kidz Bop rewrote them