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Songs Targeting Anger Styles
These Descriptions of Anger have been adapted from the book Letting Go of Anger: The 10 Most Common Anger Styles and What To Do About Them and Angry All The Time - An Emergency Guide to Anger Control by Ron Potter-Efron, M.S.W. and Pat Potter-Efron, M.S.
Some songs listed below may fall under more than one Anger Style category.
* Antidotes for Anger/Healing for Anger provide a perspective of support so the person is able to see anger triggers and responses form a different perspective. As the support leads to strengthening a person's emotional status, the impact of the anger itself is lessened.
** Situational Anger is when anger is directed toward yourself due to your own failures.
+ Negro Spirituals/Signal Songs were created by blacks prior to the time of the Civil War. At this time the blacks had no political hope for freedom on this earth. Within that context, they poured out their feelings to God through song. It is really interesting to see how their honest uninhibited expression of emotions through song expressed directly to God actually served to support them and provided a structure that played a key role in their passage on the Underground Railroad and ultimate acquisition of freedom. These signal songs were songs with double meanings used by the slaves. In these songs the lyrics had one meaning that was clearly understandable. However, the double meaning of the lyrics known to the slaves served to signal the slaves about pursuit or a way to escape on the Underground Railroad.
Perspectives/Changes ++ These songs may be used to help people evaluate different ideas from different perspectives and possibily serve as a catalyst to help people change their perspectives.
| 9/11/02 - Song Title | Artists |
| Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue | Toby Keith |
| What's Going On? | Aaron Lewis |
| Alicia Keys | |
| Backstreet Boys | |
| Bono | |
| Britney Spears | |
| Christina Aguilera | |
| Destiny'sChild | |
| Gewn Stefani | |
| J-Lo | |
| Ja Rule | |
| Jermaine Dupri | |
| Mary J. Blige | |
| Michael Stipe | |
| Nelly Fertado | |
| Noya Gaye | |
| 'Nsync | |
| P Diddy | |
| Savage Garden | |
| Where Were You | Alan Jackson |
| 911 | Kirk Franklin |
| Calmer of the Storm | Jason Germain and Marc Martel |
| Sometimes He Calms the Storm | Tony Wood and Kevin Strokes |
| Lighthouse | Celeste A. Behnke |
| So Much Trouble in the World | Bob Marley |