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music and aggression  

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  • The content and messages of music lyrics is a controversy that started to gain public exposure and discussion around the 1960s, when music began to contain such themes as drug use, risky sexual behavior, and violence. In the early 1990s, this controversy surged again with the popularity of violent gangsta rap. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Aggression, Music and]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NXBSR62K-R

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