Rock Music's Effect on Teens
"Music alters and intensifies [teens'] moods, furnishes much of their slang, dominates their conversations and provides the ambiance at their social gatherings" (O'Toole). Music without a doubt touches every teen's life in some way or another. You walk into a grocery store and the latest pop band is floating through aisle 4. You go to a bar and hear some raucous rock band blaring angry words over a cranked p.a. system. And if you hear that annoying television commercial jingle one more time you are likely to break something. …
