Music and mind in everyday life / Eric Clarke, Nicola Dibben, Stephanie Pitts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Eric F.

Contributor:

Dibben, Nicola.

Pitts, Stephanie

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

214 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

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 upon - 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, it critically examines the ways in which psychology can explain people's diverse experiences of, and engagement with music, focusing on how music is used, acquired, and made in a range of 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. ‘Making Music’ tackles the psychology of playing, improvising, and composing music, which are understood as closely related and integrated activities. ‘Using Music’ addresses 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. ‘Acquiring Music’ considers 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 a discussion of 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, this book will make fascinating reading for musicians and music scholars, as well as those in the fields of music psychology and music education.

Contents:

1 Music in people's lives 1

Part 1 Making music

2 Motivations and skills 17

3 Expression and communication in performance 33

4 Improvising and composing 49

Part 2 Using music

5 Hearing and listening 65

6 Individuals using music 79

7 Groups using music 101

Part 3 Acquiring music

8 Lifelong musical development 127

9 Contexts for learning 149

10 The psychology of music - an overview 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780198525578

0198525575

OCLC:

427610986

Publisher Number:

99936117263