MWP1: Precis 6: “The Effects Of Sexually Violent Rock Music On Males' Acceptance Of Violence Against Women”

            In the article “The Effects Of Sexually Violent Rock Music On Males' Acceptance Of Violence Against Women” (1991) by Janet Lawrence and Doris Joyner, the authors claim that sexually violent lyrics in Heavy Metal music are usually unable to be heard by the majority of people and play no role comparatively to violence against women. The authors support this claim through experimentation involving the listening of violent lyrics in Heavy Metal music, non-violent lyrics, and classical music, resulting in no distinguishable difference between the violent lyrics and non-violent lyrics groups. The purpose of this article is to prevent the information obtained from the experiment in order to prove that the lyrics in Heavy Metal music do not play a role in violence towards women when the lyrics are unable to be heard. The audience for this article is a group of educated people concerned about Heavy Metal music’s effect on violence towards women, because the article is very long, featured in a journal about women’s psychology, written like a lab report, uses college level vocabulary, and uses statistical language that is on a college level.

Lawrence, Janet S. St., and Doris J. Joyner. "The Effects Of Sexually Violent Rock Music On Males' Acceptance Of Violence Against Women." Psychology Of Women Quarterly 15.1 (1991): 49-63. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Feb. 2012.