Music pervades everyday life - in homes, on trains and planes, in
cars and shops, at births and deaths, at weddings and war, in
concert halls, clubs, stadiums, and fields. In so many ways, music
marks and orchestrates the ways in which people experience the
world together. What is it that makes people want to live their
lives to the sound of music, and why do so many of our most private
experiences and most public spectacles incorporate - or even depend
on - music?
Music and Mind in Everyday Life uses psychology to understand
musical behaviour and experience in a range of circumstances,
including composing and performing, listening and persuading, and
teaching and learning. Starting from 'real world' examples of
musical experiences, it critically examines the ways in which
psychology can explain people's diverse experience of, and
engagement with music, focusing on how music is used, acquired, and
made in a range of familiar musical contexts. Using a framework of
real and imagined musical scenarios, the book draws on a wide range
of research in the psychology of music and music education.
The book is organized into three central sections. In "Making
Music," it tackles the psychology of playing, improvising, and
composing music, understood as closely related and integrated
activities. In Using Music the authors address the ways in which
people listen to music, manage their emotions, moods, and
identities with music, and use music for therapy, persuasion and
social control. In "Acquiring Music," they consider music in human
development, and in a range of more formal and informal educational
contexts. The final chapter provides an overview of the history and
preoccupations of music psychology as a discipline, and concludes
with some remarks on the wider significance of music psychology for
an understanding of human subjectivity.
Drawing on a wide range of research in music psychology and music
education, the book will make fascinating reading for musicians and
music scholars, as well as those in the fields of music psychology
and music education.
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