How has music changed over the last 100 years? What has remained the same?
What role does music play in your life?
Find a recent new article pertaining to music. Post the link and summarize what it was about

Music has changed dramatically over the last 100 years. Not only in the way music is played but the sound its self. Music use to be bought on records and played on a record player. There were also radios that played music. The radio in the beginning was mostly used for story telling. Where as now, it's used for news and music round the clock. There's even services you can purchase that have no commercials or news. We also have CD's and IPODS and MP3 players now that allow us to play music. Not to mention we have the internet and MTV.

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The article I read discusses the link between country music and suicide rates. It explains that a lot of country music talks about similar life situations such as divorce, southerness, poverty, and gunavailability. The connections between the two is being explored. The model shows that 51% of the variance in urbanwhite suicide rates. It states that already suicidal people are being pushed over the edge when hearing these type of songs.