FMP-Musicians and mortality

If we desire an improved public understanding of science,we researchers have to do our part to communicate beyond the narrow academic audiences to which our scholarly work is targeted.We would love to see more scholars share their findings with the general public forums,addressing audiences on radio and television,and presenting their work on accessible fashion on the web.In this case study we look at how Proffessor Dianna Kennys Kaudable effort ar publicly disseminating her solid scholarly work took on a life on its own as her words and data were reinterpreted and re-explained. Age of death by genre:- In March 2015, a striking graph made the rounds on social media. The graph reproduced below,appears to show that being a musician in older musical genres-blues,jazz,gospel-is a relatively safe occupation,whereas performing new genres-punk,metal and especially rap and hip-hop-is extraordinarily dangerous.