Reflections of Violence in Music

Introduction

Throughout the history of humanity, music has been one of the most powerful tools and the most effective language used for expressions and feelings, to portray life, nature and making sense of existence, as well as to calm, in therapy, etc. While using this language, humanity has met with aesthetics over time, has discovered itself, has been inspired by the environment and nature, and has benefited from the sounds, structures, forms and materials that it has created according to the understanding of beauty by observing the contrasts in life. One of the facts that human, being a biopsychic and musical, encounters in the adventure of life is violence. Individuals and societies benefit from art to deal with violence as a subject. One of the tools they use to do this is the language of music. One of the aestheticization fields of violence is music. At the heart of exposure to violence of human beings who has been trapped in their ids, consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, it is the existence of goodness and evil in their ego. According to Mülayim; hatred and hate is a feature that man carries with him just like love and peace. The combination of violence and art in an ethical and aesthetic framework may overlap from time to time. Beyond the use of one on the other's name, the reflection of the two on each of the intersection points has inevitably remained on the agenda in the history of individual-society relations. All human values ​​are included in art. Art has been reflected in noble and lofty emotions (love, peace, love, friendship, sympathy, admiration, etc.) as well as passions such as hate, hatred, jealousy and getting more (Ötgün, 2008: p.91). Before revealing the relationship between music and violence, it will be useful to touch upon its impact by addressing the concept of violence. Efforts to define violence and to process the phenomenon of violence have been the subject of numerous studies. According to Uçan (2007), the word violence has a three-dimensional meaning as positive, neutral and negative. Negative violence is vulgar, harsh, distress and painful or harmful oppression, action or action directed against people from the outside. In terms of the meaning and function it carries, it is not an innate feature and behaviour, but an acquired feature and a behaviour learned later. Violence is also a reactive act resulting from weakness. Rousseau (1998: p. 86) argues that evil comes from weakness, recovery will emerge as it grows stronger. It is called all of the individual or social movements that causes physical or mental harm to people by applying force and pressure (Alkan, 2019: p. 243-244). To support this idea, it is defined as events or attempts created to intimidate people (Ünsal, 1996). Violence can be structural (continuous) or cyclical (temporary), indirect or direct, narrow or broad meaningful and can be considered from a private or collective, criminal or public perspective. Violence always means different things for each individual depending on their age, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, personal experience, approach, and background (Alkan, 2019: pp. 243-244; Kocacık, 2001).

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data, around 475,000 murders are committed globally each year and millions of people suffer from violence-related injuries. According to the evaluations of the same institution, approximately one third of women worldwide, in other words 35%, experience physical and / or sexual violence throughout their lifetime, one in four adults is physically abused as a child, one in every 5 females and one in 10 males suffer from sexual abuse (Web_4, Access Date: 17.03.2020). These disclosed data illustrate the fact that the planet we are in is completely violently made. In such a world, music is one of the main facts in which violence can be portrayed and the reflections of the elements of violence can be explored.