Music and Manipulation On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music [Paperback]

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 musics behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus highlighting not only musics diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality.

This valuable and timely book provides an overview of various theoretical approaches to the uses and meaning of music, particularly in view of its capacity to influence people&In all, several important issues are raised in chapters of this book, and are also addressed, either in the same chapter or in one by another author.? ??Musicae Scientiae

&a valuable addition/complement to the musicological literature thanks to the critically examined current debates about the uses and consequences of music. [In addition, the book offers] many concise overviews of present research on music and manipulation. As such it is suitable for graduate students but also more generally for people working in the media and music industry.? ??Swedish Journal of Musicology

&a timely book that&sets a standard for a new field of study and therefore deserves to be read widely&[the volumes] contributions contain fascinating material for further study.?????International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter

Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten haveput together a valuable collection of essays on a consistently interesting theme. The book constitutes an important resource for the future development of thlƒ7