Music and Manipulation

by Brown, Steven; VOLGSTEN, ULRIK

• ISBN13: 9781571814890
• ISBN10: 1571814892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 well 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

List of Illustrations	ix
Foreword: Manipulating Music---a Perspective of Practicing Composers	x
Preface	xii
Acknowledgments	xviii
List of Contributors	xx
Introduction: ``How Does Music Work?'' Toward a Pragmatics of Musical Communication	1	(30)
Steven Brown
MANIPULATION BY MUSIC
Part I Music Events
Ritual and Ritualization: Musical Means of Conveying and Shaping Emotion in Humans and Other Animals	31	(26)
Ellen Dissanayake
Music, Identity, and Social Control	57	(17)
Peter J. Martin
Between Ideology and Identity: Media, Discourse, and Affect in the Musical Experience	74	(29)
Ulrik Volgsten
Part II Background Music
Music in Business Environments	103	(23)
Adrian C. North
David J. Hargreaves
The Social Uses of Background Music for Personal Enhancement	126	(37)
Steven Brown
Tores Theorell
Part III Audiovisual Media
Music, Moving Images, Semiotics, and the Democratic Right to Know	163	(24)
Philip Tagg
Music Video and Genre: Structure, Context, and Commerce	187	(20)
Rob Strachan
The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials: A Comparison of Theoretical Approaches	207	(32)
Claudia Bullerjahn
MANIPULATION OF MUSIC
Part IV Governmental/Industrial Control
Music Censorship from Plato to the Present	239	(25)
Marie Korpe
Ole Reitov
Martin Cloonan
Orpheus in Hell: Music in the Holocaust	264	(23)
Joseph J. Moreno
The Changing Structure of the Music Industry: Threats to and Opportunities for Creativity	287	(28)
Roger Wallis
Part V Control by Reuse
Music and Reuse: Theoretical and Historical Considerations	315	(21)
Ola Stockfelt
Copyright, Music, and Morals: Artistic Expression and the Public Sphere	336	(29)
Ulrik Volgsten
Yngve Akerberg
Aesth/ethic Epilogue: Is Mozart's Music Good?	365	(5)
Steven Brown
Ulrik Volgsten
Index	370