Capstone Project – The Effects of Mainstream Music on Human Culture

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Listening and creating music with others alters the social bonds you have with people, and has been proven to do so for at least tens of thousands of years prior to present day. Music, both live and pre-recorded, have a major developmental impact on the relationships between humans. Music can begin relationships, nurture relationships and destroy relationships depending on each individual’s taste in music, the message behind the songs’ lyrics and how often that type of music is listened to. The main cultural change I want to focus on in my capstone project is America’s increasing divorce rate in the past ~50 years, which runs parallel with the creation and evolution of pop culture. Long before pop culture, it was extremely common for song lyrics to include loving your significant other and “staying true” to them. After pop culture, it became increasingly common for artists to sing and rap about being independent and not caring about anyone’s feelings – a more “do your own thing” type of culture. I’m going to focus on divorce rate, but also how listening to music can be healthy for relationships, and what music does to the human brain.
For my website, I’m going to create an animated infographic and remix video explaining all of the effects music has on human culture. The website will consist of 4 pages, including: an introduction page, an animated infographic page, a remix video page and a page summarizing how listening to music effects the brain, along with how it impacts relationships.

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