Beyond Perception

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
Patrik N. Juslin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Abstract Form ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Music And Emotion

This chapter sets out the aims and objectives of Part 3 of this book. It considers a fourth paradox regarding music and emotion: Music — an abstract form of art which appears removed from our concerns in everyday life — may arouse emotions — biologically evolved reactions related to human survival. Resolving this paradox may require abandoning some common conceptions about music and emotion, which have prevented a deeper understanding. The following questions are addressed: Does music really arouse emotions? If so, how do we know? Which emotions music arouses? Are these emotions different from other emotions? In which settings do emotions occur? Why and how does music arouse emotions? Why do ‘live’ concerts tend to arouse stronger emotions than recorded music? Why do different listeners react differently to the same piece of music? Are the emotions aroused by music in the same way across cultures?

scholarly journals A technology and its vicissitudes: playing the gramophone in Sweden 1903–1945

Popular Music ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Ulrik Volgsten
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Scientific Curiosity ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Musical Communication

AbstractThis inquiry deals with the changing role of the technology and the use of phonographs and gramophones during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than looking at the UK or USA, which much previous research has done, the focus is on peripheral Sweden. More specifically the question is how phonography turned from being a scientific curiosity into becoming an everyday media technology, and how it thereby influenced culture and everyday musical communication. The findings show two distinct approaches to recorded music, which intermingle in today's unprecedented musicalisation of culture and everyday life around the globe – approaches respectively described as utilitarian and solipsistic.

scholarly journals The music that people use to sleep: universal and subgroup characteristics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jane Scarratt ◽  
Ole Adrian Heggli ◽  
Peter Vuust ◽  
Kira Vibe Jespersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Individual Variation ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
General Music ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
The Individual

Sleep problems are increasing in modern society. Throughout history, lullabies have been used to soothe the sleep of children, and today, with the increasing accessibility of recorded music, many people report listening to music as a tool to improve sleep. Nevertheless, we know very little about this common human habit. In this study, we elucidate the characteristics of music used for sleep by extracting the features of a large number of tracks (N = 225,927) from 989 sleep playlists retrieved from the global streaming platform Spotify. We found that compared to music in general, music used for sleep is softer and slower; it is more often instrumental (i.e. without lyrics) and played on acoustic instruments. Yet, a large amount of variation was found to be present in sleep music, which clustered into six distinct subgroups. Strikingly, three of these subgroups included popular mainstream tracks that are faster, louder, and more energetic than average sleep music. The findings reveal previously unknown aspects of sleep music and highlight the individual variation in the choice of music for facilitating sleep. By using digital traces, we were able to determine the universal and subgroup characteristics of sleep music in a unique, global dataset. This study can inform the clinical use of music and advance our understanding of how music is used to regulate human behaviour in everyday life.

The Last Chorus

2019 ◽  
pp. 488-508
Author(s):  
Patrik N. Juslin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Music And Emotion

This chapter provides a synthesis of the discussions in the preceding chapters. It suggests that having read the previous chapters, readers will agree that little more can be said about musical emotions these days. However, much work remains to explore and understand fully the manifold mechanisms involved. Even now, it is possible to suggest possible ways of explaining how these mechanisms could produce some of the most complex and rewarding emotions experienced with music in daily life. The chapter also considers another paradox of music and emotion, which needs to be resolved: People tend to avoid experiencing sadness in everyday life, yet they seem to find the experience of sadness pleasurable in music listening.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
Doris Mayer ◽  
Babette Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Mental Contrasting ◽  
Low Expectations

Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions. Participants in one condition were taught to use mental contrasting regarding their everyday concerns, while participants in the other condition were taught to indulge. Two weeks later, participants in the mental-contrasting condition reported to have fared better in managing their time and decision making during everyday life than those in the indulging condition. By helping people to set expectancy-dependent goals, teaching the metacognitive strategy of mental contrasting can be a cost- and time-effective tool to help people manage the demands of their everyday life.

Social Psychology of Everyday Life

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Strieker
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life
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