Research Short 2/13

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2579974?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=country&searchText=music&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fwc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26group%3Dnone%26acc%3Don%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26amp%3D%26Query%3Dcountry%2Bmusic&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

1. This article is about the effects of listening to country music and its connections to suicide on white males.

2. The first section talks about who the study was conducted on and what causes the acts of suicide.
    The second section talks about how they conducted the study by breaking it down into certain areas of the United States.
    The third section talks about the results of the study on whites and blacks connected with suicide.
    The fourth section talks about the conclusion of the study with a chart.

3. Suicide
    Country
    White
    Low class
    Black

4. Why does music cause suicide?
     Does rap cause black suicide?
     Why commit suicide?

5. I don't believe that the music causes someone to commit suicide. People that wish to commit suicide have a bigger reason than the music that they listen to. Only a select number of country songs actually talk about suicide or killing in general. The problems mentioned are real things like alcohol addiction, but the music is not the reason that someone has problems with alcohol abuse. Suicide is a serious problem that should be investigated but I really find it hard to believe that country music has any relation to someone wanting to kill themselves. I don't agree with this article.