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1 Victoria Buff Prof. Presnell English 1102 26 Mar.

2014

Emotion Impacted By Music onto Society: Evaluated Work Cited Etzkorn, Peter K. Music And Society: The Later Writings Of Paul Honigsheim. New York: Robert E. Krieger. 1979. Print. The book begins by introducing how the beginning of sociological views came into society. It describes the influence of Wilhelm Dilthey, a sociologist whose humanistic studies develops his own theory on the impact of music, begins to describe how, The emotional states and their representation in fantasy it is a relationship between an objective musical work and its parts, as a creation of fantasy, and the works meaning in every melody, what it tells the listener about the emotional feeling which r esults from the relations between rhythm, melody, harmony, and the motions expressed thereby. (Dilthey, 1927:222) This is only one example from the many different views offered by the various sociologists given in the book. The book helps describe many different opinions and conclusions by various artists and sociologists on how music impacts the audience and society. This helps navigate my research paper in the direction of views that not the popular general population may have but the scientific minds that helped shape the ideology of sociology and music. After reading more chapters into the book, I was given more information about different views and how people such as Marxian, approached the sociology of music and how different kinds of music may be performed differently between men and women. There is a wide amount of useful information to help support my claim of music having an impact in general towards a population.

Thoma , Myriam V., Stefan Ryf, et al. "Emotion Regulation Through Listening To Music In Everyday Situations." Psychology Press Taylor and Francis Group. NA.NA (2012): 550-60. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. The article begins to discuss how music affects the human body as well as how it correlates with the emotional responses given. When listeners enjoy the music that they are listening to, there is activation in the subcortical, limbic and paralimbic regions, triggering the intensive emotional responses. Previous studies that were conducted as for example the research Cantor and Zillmann (1973) tested that concluded that the listeners current state of emotion has an effect on the situational music choice of what they listen to. Musical choices seemed to be emotion-congruent for when it came to emotional regulation until Schaub conducted a study on mental ill patients and the emotion-dependent music selection. It was found that the emotional content of the music was chosen by the participants went against the emotions that they

2 were currently feeling. This opened doors as to what could factor this rebel. Could it be the emotion that people were experiencing they personally did not feel comfortable with, such as anger? Or could it be that because the patients tested were mentally ill could suffer from dysfunctional emotional regulation? This opens many doors for my research paper. The book helps offer studies that were conducted on my topic and help open doors as well as possibilities as to why music plays such an impact on the emotional responses of people. I am able to connect a simple emotion that may not be able to be measured or factual though, I am able to collect information of collected responses from a vast majority. Continuing to read more of the article, I was able to gather a lot of recent information, including studies, about my research topic. I was able to use the studies to brainstorm more about what other factors could lead to different results to the popular belief. Is it only those who have mental illness that could possibly choose to listen to other types of music that do not convey to their emotion? Nor could it just be a healthy persons personal choice. It is interesting to see how music can affect us biologically all the same, though produce different responses suddenly based on our emotional ties.

Mursell, James L. The Psychology of Music. New York: W.W Norton & Company Inc.1937. Print.

The book describes more about the psychology base of music and the structure of which it is played to convey certain messages out to the audience. The different tones and forms that music is projected can alter the response the audience can give off. The tone in the music is low and dark, the audience is bound to have the similar reaction. Musical movement is described in the book to be, something that we hear in the first instance, and that we feel physically only in part. When looking more into the structure of music and how that can simply alter ones emotions, this takes a different route in whether or not the music is what creates our emotion to arise, or if the emotion is the reason we connect with the music choice that we prefer. Because of the new openings in looking at more of the structure base of music rather than focusing only on the audience, such like society; you are able to infer more about what a simple change in tone or a sharp note can do to the responses given off by the brain or emotional state. Is it the bodys own natural response to feel a certain way because of a previous experience or is it lead on by what the musician is wanting us to feel. I am able to go into further research to look more into other possible instances that this could happen in.

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