Overview
- Analysis rooted in large-scale quantitative research
- Considers the complex ways in which personal and contextual variables interact to shape musical engagement
- Analyses historical and modern day music used in key life events, from births to weddings and funerals
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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About this book
How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the relationship between music and key life moments from birth to death, the text takes a cross-disciplinary approach, combining perspectives from a ‘history of emotions’ with modern day psychology, empirical surveys of modern-day listeners and analysis of musical works. The book traces the trajectory of emotional response to music over the past 500 years, illuminating the interaction between personal, historical and contextual variables that influence our hard-wired emotional responses to music, and the key role of memory and nostalgia in the mechanisms of emotional response.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Personal and Contextual Variables Influencing Music Listening Choices
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Historical and Psychological Variables Reflected in Music Choices for Key Life Events
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sandra Garrido is a Research Fellow at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development at Western Sydney University, Australia. She has a background in both music and psychology and has authored over 70 academic publications including a book entitled Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music? (2017).
Jane Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing Arts, Associate Dean Research, and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published extensively and gained grants internationally in the fields of music and psychology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Music, Nostalgia and Memory
Book Subtitle: Historical and Psychological Perspectives
Authors: Sandra Garrido, Jane W. Davidson
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02556-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02555-7Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02556-4Published: 19 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music, Memory Studies, Cultural Theory, Media and Communication, Popular Culture