Music and Manipulation : : On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music /

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

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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 le...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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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

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