How music affects society

Music & Science, 2021

Researchers working within the field of music and society often comment that they wish to use their research for the betterment of society and individuals, wherever possible. In many cases, this process of betterment requires some sort of behavioral change—whether this is changing poor habits to promote healthy living and thinking or changing destructive behavior in order to lead more productive and connected lives. It can increasingly be seen in the world today that social behavior has a complex array of influences and motivations and rarely is empirical evidence one of them. No amount of thoroughly researched evidence or logically developed arguments influences this behavior. Brexit and the Trump administration are two examples of this phenomenon. What seems to influence this seemingly bizarre social behavior is a collective belief in a narrative. The narrative needs to speak to common emotions, senses of identities and memories, but it does not need to necessarily be supported by...

Music & Science

Can music effect social change? This is a complex question, because both music and social change exist in multiple forms and within diverse contexts. What types of music cause social change and what kinds of social change are generated by music are questions that deserve systematic empirical investigation. Addressing these questions may have important benefits for advancing society and for revealing the important aspects of the human connection to music. Several studies have begun to explore such questions, so it is useful at this stage to pause and consider what is actually meant by social change and what are the cognitive and emotional processes that underlie musical responses and behaviour, which is the goal of this interdisciplinary review paper. Social behaviour appears in different forms (e.g., collaboration, helpfulness), and contexts (e.g., dyad, group, community). At the same time, engagement in music involves a variety of behaviours (e.g., synchronisation). In order to bet...

Technoarete Transactions on Advances in Social Sciences and Humanities

Music is a form of art that entertains people and also it has the ability to change the cultural aspects of society. Music often allows people to express all possible emotions that people experience in their lives. Sometimes music helps to express creativity, thoughts and feelings. Music has the power to bring people together in different ways and music helps people in different mental conditions. Music is a social phenomenon that is present everywhere and it is a medium that has the ability to shape society and cultures. Music has its own cultural values and it shapes society in different ways. This research attempts to point out the influence of music on modern culture and society and the main objevtive of the research is to identify the connection between cultures of society and music. This research follows the “qualitative data collection and analysis” method to know the major impacts of music on society and cultures. This research will also focus on the different factors of the...

This research paper will focus on how radio stations should do away with the traditional form of news reading and resort to a lively interaction with the masses through music and developed projects in that field. Based on an assumption that music has the power to ease frustration and channel energy into a productive project, community radios should work towards unifying the sentiments of their people through music and lyrics that are meaningful, and can at least try to eradicate a few negative habits like drug abuse, alcohol overdose and gang membership.

2013

Santos, 3 1. Introduction: Throughout my life, I have been a passionate music collector and dedicated music enthusiast. The voices of Matt Costa, Denison Witmer and Chris Martin sing through my headphones and accompany my thoughts as they appear as words on my computer screen. Currently on my desktop, I can choose from thousands of songs on my open Pandora webpage, Spotify application, and iTunes library. As the rain pounds outside the windows, I work inside with guitars, violins, and harmonicas as friends. Symphonies see me through my daily duties, songs create stimulation, and music composes order in my life. So integral is music to my life that I begin to feel anxious when my iPod battery is low or if I forget my headphones on the way to the gym. A well-chosen song can bring peace, inspire thought, or boost my motivation for a tough project.

Journal of Material Culture, v. 16, n. 4, pp. 1-13

How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music's plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social mediation; while these socialities, with other forms of music's mediation, together produce a constellation of mediations -an assemblage. All four planes of social mediation enter into the musical assemblage: the first two amount to socialities engendered by musical practice and experience; the last two amount to social and institutional conditions that afford certain kinds of musical practice. The four are irreducible to one another and are articulated in contingent ways through relations of synergy, affordance, conditioning or causality. By adopting the topological metaphor of the plane to stand for distinctive socialities mediated by music, the intention is to highlight both their autonomy and their mutual interference. The second half turns to genre theory to suggest that analysing genre in terms of the mutual mediation between two self-organizing historical entities illuminates both how social identity formations may be refracted in music, and how musical genres can entangle themselves in evolving social formations. Finally, with reference to music's capacity to create aggregations of the affected, the article considers the efflorescence of theories of affect, association and entrainment. While such theories illuminate the generative nature of the mutual mediation between musical formations and social formations, they are limited by lack of awareness of the four distinctive planes of music's social mediation, as well as the significance of their autonomy and their contingent interrelations for understanding how music materializes identities.

British Journal of Music Education, 2001

Psychology of Art and Creativity, vol. 2, 2015

2006