Abstract
In order to investigate the effects of exposure to live rock music on the hearing of adolescents and adults attending a typical school dance, pre and postexposure binaural pure-tone air-conduction thresholds were obtained for 2,000, 4,000, and 6,000 Hz from 20 students (13 girls, 7 boys, ages 12 to 17 years) and 7 adult chaperones (37 to 43 years). All but one student and one adult experienced at least a 5 dB threshold shift at one or more frequencies, with average threshold shifts at all frequencies significant at the .05 level of confidence. Fifteen of the 19 students and all the adults who experienced shifts also reported tinnitus. Of the 6 subjects randomly selected to be retested 3 days postexposure, 4 demonstrated only partial recovery to preexposure thresholds. Implications of repeated rock music exposure are discussed.
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