ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emic And Etic, Music Therapy, National Post
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Anta02: lecture 3 culture and new media. Transforming rage and loss transforming those feelings to more positive feelings through song and dance. Incentives to change the ways they express their feelings. Show the kids lose their ability to code switch they began to perform the wrong emotions in the wrong contexts. Grace showed confusions about her emotions she began to be coached to express saddens that led her to be alienated from her community. Main point: how people"s feelings become part of the material and social consequences these programs produce: The child"s sense of self begun to change because they were rewarded for acting differently. Thinking about how emotions are prompted, felt, experienced, expressed, and circulated: emotions becoming exchanged for material goods. Emotions can be thought about as objects that are constituted by and animated through social relations (following mauss: emotions are actual things that have social currencies. Dance sorrowfully, sing with sad faces, and you will be healed.
