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Informationen zum Autor Ulrik Volgsten is a research fellow in the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media at Göteborg University in Sweden. He received his doctorate in the Department of Musicology at Stockholm University, and has published papers on both musical and philosophical topics. Volgsten's multidisciplinary research mainly focuses on human communication in different media. Klappentext 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 diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Ritual and Ritualization Ellen Dissanayake Chapter 2. Music, Identity, and Social Control Peter J. Martin Chapter 3. Between Ideology and Identity Ulrik Volgsten Chapter 4. Music in Business Environments Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves Chapter 5. The Social Uses of Background Music for Personal Enhancement Steven Brown and Töres Theorell Chapter 6. Music, Moving Images, Semiotics, and the Democratic Right to Know Philip Tagg Chapter 7. Music Video and Genre Rob Strachan Chapter 8. The Effectiveness of Music in Television Commercials Claudia Bullerjahn Chapter 9. Music Censorship from Plato to the Present Marie Korpe , Ole Reitov and Martin Cloonan Chapter 10. Orpheus in Hell Joseph J. Moreno Chapter 11. The Changing Structure of the Music Industry Roger Wallis Chapter 12. Music and Reuse Ola Stockfelt Chapter 13. Copyright, Music, and Morals Ulrik Volgsten and Yngve Akerberg Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index ...
