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‘Rebellion Through Music’ by Heather Wendtland talks about the idea of youth, who through the listening and usage of music, are able to mark out their identities. She expounds the ironies involved, the lyrical connotations in particular, and how youth are still able to accept what’s perceived as ‘wrong’ and use it to their advantage. Music, to them, is like a double-edged sword, providing them with a taste of empowerment and exhilaration, yet being obnoxious to authority. Wendtland, a university student who majors and minors in sociology and psychology respectively, writes with a personal touch from her past experiences with references to very similar examples given from other authors. Although she wrote this article as a composition assignment on cultural phenomenon for her professor, she appears to have an intended target audience of like-minded youth, seemingly trying to bring to light how they are able to “rebel� through music.
Wendtland suggests the idea that......

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