
Music and Manipulation
On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
- 400 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations list
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 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 Idenity: 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
- Chapter 8 The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials
- Part IV: Governmental/Industrial Control
- Chapter 9 Music Censorship from Plato to the Present
- Chapter 10 Orpheus in Hell
- Chapter 11 The Changing Structure of the Music Industry
- Part V: Control by Reuse
- Chapter 12 Music and Reuse
- Chapter 13 Copyright, Music, and Morals: Artistic Expression and the Public Sphere
- Epilogue
- Index
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