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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811606403321

Autore

Brown Steven

Titolo

Music and Manipulation [[electronic resource] ] : On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2005

ISBN

0-85745-714-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VolgstenUlrik

Disciplina

306.4/842

Soggetti

Manipulative behavior

Music - Social aspects

Social control

SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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 KnowChapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 divers