Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57181-489-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts. This volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music’s behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus highlighting not only music’s diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Steven

Volgsten, Ulrik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Ritual and Ritualization

Ellen Dissanayake

Chapter 2. Music, Identity, and Social Control

Peter J. Martin

Chapter 3. Between Ideology and Identity

Ulrik Volgsten

Chapter 4. Music in Business Environments

Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves

Chapter 5. The Social Uses of Background Music for Personal Enhancement

Steven Brown and Töres Theorell

Chapter 6. Music, Moving Images, Semiotics, and the Democratic Right to Know

Philip Tagg

Chapter 7. Music Video and Genre

Rob Strachan

Chapter 8. The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials

Claudia Bullerjahn

Chapter 9. Music Censorship from Plato to the Present

Marie Korpe, Ole Reitov and Martin Cloonan

Chapter 10. Orpheus in Hell

Joseph J. Moreno Chapter 11. The Changing Structure of the Music Industry

Roger Wallis

Chapter 12. Music and Reuse

Ola Stockfelt

Chapter 13. Copyright, Music, and Morals

Ulrik Volgsten and Yngve Akerberg

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Volgsten, Ulrik
Ulrik Volgsten is a research fellow in the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media at Göteborg University in Sweden. He received his doctorate in the Department of Musicology at Stockholm University, and has published papers on both musical and philosophical topics. Volgsten's multidisciplinary research mainly focuses on human communication in different media.

Brown, Steven
Steven Brown is a researcher in cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He received his doctorate at Columbia University in New York, and has done research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His research deals with the neural basis of human communication, including the arts.

Steven Brown is a researcher in cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He received his doctorate at Columbia University in New York, and has done research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His research deals with the neural basis of human communication, including the arts.