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

Music and Manipulation: On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
ISBN-10
1845450981
ISBN-13
9781845450984
Category
Music
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Steven Brown, Ulrik Volgsten

Description

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.

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