Steven (Hrsg.) Brown

Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Volgsten, Ulrik (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-57181-489-0
EAN: 9781571814890
Produktnummer: 19824228
Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H15.9 cm x B23.2 cm x D2.5 cm 636 g
Gewicht: 636
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

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.