Sex, Drugs, and Country Music? A Content Analysis of Substance use, Sex, Violence, and Weapons in Country Music

Robin L. Toblin; Jennifer L. Lowell

Authors

Robin L. Toblin
Jennifer L. Lowell

Keywords:

country music, music, mass media, adolescents, sexual activity, alcohol use, tobacco, weapons, violence

Abstract

Because adolescents are strongly influenced by years listen to an average of 3 hours of music per day, and 98 million US country music, we aim to describe the music.

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Sex, Drugs, and Country Music? A Content Analysis of Substance use, Sex, Violence, and Weapons in Country Music. (2014). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 14(H2), 81-88. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1192

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