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

Brown, Steven (editor.). Volgsten, Ulrik, (editor.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781571814890
ISBN: 1571814892
ISBN: 9781845450984
ISBN: 1845450981
ISBN: 0857457144
ISBN: 9780857457141
Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)
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Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.