Music and Manipulation : : On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music / / ed. by Steven Brown, Ulrik Volgsten.

• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Steven,; Bullerjahn, Claudia,; Cloonan, Martin,; Dissanayake, Ellen,; Hargreaves, David J.,; Korpe, Marie,; Martin, Peter J.,; Moreno, Joseph J.,; North, Adrian C.,; Reitov, Ole,; Stockfelt, Ola,; Strachan, Rob,; Tagg, Philip,; Theorell, Töres,; Volgsten, Ulrik,; Wallis, Roger,; Åkerberg, Yngve,
• HerausgeberIn: Brown, Steven,; Volgsten, Ulrik,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword. Manipulating Music—a Perspective of Practicing Composers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction “How Does Music Work?” Toward a Pragmatics of Musical Communication -- Manipulation by Music -- PART I MUSIC EVENTS -- Chapter 1 Ritual and Ritualization Musical Means of Conveying and Shaping Emotion in Humans and Other Animals -- Chapter 2 Music, Identity, and Social Control -- Chapter 3 Between Ideology and Identity Media, Discourse, and Affect in the Musical Experience -- PART II BACKGROUND MUSIC -- Chapter 4 Music in Business Environments -- Chapter 5 The Social Uses of Background Music for Personal Enhancement -- PART III AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA -- Chapter 6 Music, Moving Images, Semiotics, and the Democratic Right to Know -- Chapter 7 Music Video and Genre Structure, Context, and Commerce -- Chapter 8 The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials A Comparison of Theoretical Approaches -- Manipulation of Music -- PART IV GOVERNMENTAL/ INDUSTRIAL CONTROL -- Chapter 9 Music Censorship from Plato to the Present -- Chapter 10 Orpheus in Hell Music in the Holocaust -- Chapter 11 The Changing Structure of the Music Industry Threats to and Opportunities for Creativity -- PART V CONTROL BY REUSE -- Chapter 12 Music and Reuse Theoretical and Historical Considerations -- Chapter 13 Copyright, Music, and Morals Artistic Expression and the Public Sphere -- Aesth/ethic Epilogue Is Mozart’s Music Good? -- Index