The energy music emits [MusicsEnergy™] works synergistically with our mind, body, and spirit [musicSenergy™]. With training, music can be used to promote hope, healing, emotional health, and wellbeing. Hope is essential to reducing dis-ease in America.
Below are seven statements that serve as a primer for Music & Media Therapy™[MMT™] and my book entitled:
MusicsEnergy™: The Essential Guide to Engaging Youth in the iGeneration
The iGeneration is the first generation that has grown up with unfettered access to handheld technology for worldwide news, information, and entertainment. There is great potential for music to be used positively in the world today.
Music is a universal language that provides opportunities for soul-to-soul connections between people of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspective. We use music and media to purposefully deconstruct the themes and messages therein highlighting those themes and messages that align with health, hope, and healing, and addressing themes and messages that do not.
Most of the themes and messages in music reflect social constructions of personhood.Many of our perspectives about these social constructions are deeply rooted in disparaging myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes about race, class, gender, and orientation.
These social constructions are stitched in our collective consciousness, and nearly every facet of modern American life, including business, industry, religion, the academy of higher education, K12, law, politics, art, literature, and even science. The Information and News Industry, and Media Entertainment™ [INIME™] is a tool that is purposefully used to present perspectives of those who create and control dissemination of content to the masses.
The enemy of freedom stands in opposition to life, liberty, self-determination, and justice for all. The enemy's agenda is to withhold freedom and decide who is deserving of it. The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy our mental, physical, and spiritual health, and any shred of hope to reduce dis-ease. The INIME™ is a tool used by the enemy to mostly preserve, and sometimes challenge the status quo.
The enemy and the INIME™ work synergistically to create “white noise” for the “black holes” that have caused dissonance in our collective, cosmic consciousness about early American History. Increasingly, this dissonance is expressed behaviorally as flagrant incivility and disrespect presented on large and small screens in programmed and social media.
Education toward social justice gives all of us an opportunity to practice Socratic thinking and Socratic questioning. Popular Youth Music and Media (PYMM) has great potential to potential to promote hope, which is essential to mental health, healing, and reducing dis-ease.
A Historically-Based, Contextually-Correct Understanding (HBCU™) is essential to engaging young people in the iGeneration, especially those disengaged by compulsory education that does not provide the culturally-relevant schooling required to survive and thrive in times like these.
Training is required to implement MusicsEnergy™, Music & Media Therapy™ and the Life Literacy Curriculum™ with emphasis on the utility of education and the true value of being schooled in America History.
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