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

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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Chapter 1. Ritual and Ritualization (Ellen Dissanayake)
Chapter 2. Music, Identity, and Social Control (Peter J. Martin)
Chapter 3. Between Ideology and Identity (Ulrik Volgsten)
Chapter 4. Music in Business Environments (Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves)
Chapter 5. The Social Uses of Background Music for Personal Enhancement (Steven Brown and Töres Theorell)
Chapter 6. Music, Moving Images, Semiotics, and the Democratic Right to Know (Philip Tagg)
Chapter 7. Music Video and Genre (Rob Strachan)
Chapter 8. The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials (Claudia Bullerjahn)
Chapter 9. Music Censorship from Plato to the Present (Marie Korpe, Ole Reitov and Martin Cloonan)
Chapter 10. Orpheus in Hell (Joseph J. Moreno)
Chapter 11. The Changing Structure of the Music Industry (Roger Wallis)
Chapter 12. Music and Reuse (Ola Stockfelt)
Chapter 13. Copyright, Music, and Morals (Ulrik Volgsten and Yngve Akerberg)

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