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Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...
Music can also evoke memories through specific individual associations. For example, certain songs become connected to specific events, life periods, or relationships. This effect is reinforced by the fact that people tend to revisit their preferred music more often than other cultural products.
If people listen to a certain type of music and add emotional experience to songs or a genre in general, this increases the likelihood of enjoying the music and being emotionally affected by it. [21] This helps explain why many people might have strong reactions to music their parents listened to frequently when they were children.
The O2 Arena in London recently took a closer look at the connection between music and live entertainment and how these things impact mental health in 14 to 25-year-old people in the UK. With the ...
Last year, when millions of people were trying to snag Eras Tour tickets, students at Texas Christian University were working just as hard to get into "Psychology (Taylor’s Version)," a new ...
The connection between music and politics has been seen in many cultures. People in the past and present – especially politicians, politically-engaged musicians and listeners – hold that music can 'express' political ideas and ideologies, such as rejection of the establishment ('anti-establishment') or protest against state or private actions, including war through anti-war songs, but also ...
The Beatles, here playing at the London Palladium, shaped the musical tastes of youth in the 1960s, and for many pop music fans, the group's artistry has not been surpassed.
As the original generation of rock and roll fans matured, the music became an accepted and deeply interwoven thread in popular culture. Beginning in the early 1950s, rock songs began to be used in a few television commercials; within a decade, this practice became widespread, and rock music also featured in film and television program soundtracks.