MU100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Underground Railroad, Live Aid, White Noise
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Music and conflict (politics, war, resistance) // chapters 7 & 8. Music therapy using music to help someone improve or recover. Music connects people across differences, brings people together (ethnical, religious, etc) Music has the power to time travel through song. Music allows for individual self expression and communication. Music can be used in charity to raise money (waving flag etc) Music amplifies meaning and makes things more obvious. Rituals (which music is a form of) take the implicit and makes it obvious. Used in politics as propaganda (yang ban xi for example) Idea that by listening/exposing your child to classical music (in this case mozart), child ends up with better ordered minds and higher iq. Conducted study where several groups listened to different things (classical, rock, white noise etc) Concluded that any music raised iq, specifically classical and white noise: power of referent power: connections/relationships, the internet, the power to influence and be.
