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2019 | Buch

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Music, Nostalgia and Memory

Historical and Psychological Perspectives

verfasst von: Sandra Garrido, Jane W. Davidson

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction
Abstract
In this introductory chapter, Garrido and Davidson briefly outline the role of music in rituals and in everyday life. They discuss the theoretical premises from diverse disciplines that form the conceptual framework for the book, and outline the large-scale research project which forms the basis for the discussions throughout the volume and the research methods used to obtain the data. The chapter further discusses the need to draw connections between historical and modern day uses of music in order to better understand the influence of heritage and the paste on the role music plays in contemporary settings.
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Personal and Contextual Variables Influencing Music Listening Choices

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Chapter 2. Longing for the Past and Music Listening Preferences
Abstract
Music is one of the strongest means for evoking feelings of nostalgia. This chapter gives an overview of the changing meaning of nostalgia over time, discussing the psychological functions of nostalgia and music’s role in achieving this. The positive and negative impact of nostalgia are discussed, with consideration of how music preferences are influenced by the degree to which one misses things from the past. The findings presented in this chapter underpin one of the central premises of the volume, which is that the interaction between music, emotion and memory explain much of our music preferences and music listening selections.
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Chapter 3. Desire for Family Connections: Family History and Cultural Context
Abstract
In this chapter, Garrido and Davidson discuss in depth how an individual’s music choices are influenced by both family and culture. The context of the family provides one’s earliest experiences with music and enhances familial relationships. Thus autobiographical memories become closely entwined with concepts of family and heritage. The chapter considers how life circumstances work so as to enhance or diminish one’s sense of attachment to the traditions of one’s heritage. The discontinuity experienced by many people in the modern world of globalization and large-scale displacement can increase the importance of connecting with the music of one’s roots.
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Chapter 4. Personality, Gender, and Education
Abstract
This chapter looks closely at how numerous personal variables play an important role in shaping how we use music and the music we are attracted to. Garrido & Davidson here examine how our perception of gender roles and how closely we fit the traditional gender stereotypes accepted in our cultural setting, can have a deep effect on our music selections. They also discuss the influence of the socio-economic and societal sub-groups with which we self-identify, and what we choose to express about our personality through the music we listen to. Our personality in turn affects how we use music to regulate mood and affect, particularly in response to adverse life events.
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Chapter 5. Setting the Mood: Throughout History and in the Modern Day
Abstract
Music is one of the most effective methods of regulating moods and has been recognized as such from as early as the Ancient Greeks. This chapter considers the historical use of music to manipulate moods and emotions in both political and medical contexts. Its use in modern times as a form of mood-altering ‘self-medication’ is also discussed. Our emotional response to music influences both how we use music to modify our affective states and how particular pieces of music come to take on meaning in our lives. Thus, as illustrated in this chapter, the power of music to influence mood and affective states works hand-in-hand with nostalgia and memory in shaping our musical choices.
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Chapter 6. Music Throughout the Life Span
Abstract
Do emotional responses to music and the way we use it stay stable throughout our lives? This chapter examines the trajectory of music preferences across the life course and the role of memory, particularly of adolescence and early adulthood, in shaping our music choices. Our musical experiences—rehearsing, performing, listening to music—can be hugely transformative personal events that merge later in life, providing opportunities for reminiscence and life review. Much of our lifelong musical preferences may be moulded by these vivid memories encoded in the early stages of our life. However, as demonstrated in this chapter, changes to auditory perception as we mature also influence the music we listen to over the course of our lives.
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Historical and Psychological Variables Reflected in Music Choices for Key Life Events

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Chapter 7. Birth
Abstract
In this chapter Garrido and Davidson consider examples of music used to celebrate the birth of a child in various cultural contexts and historical time periods, from the birth songs of the Ututu people of Nigeria, to the composition of Edward Elgar’s Nursery Suite to commemorate the birth of Princess Margaret of England. Modern day music choices used during birth as well as during post-birth celebrations in the modern day such as christenings or naming ceremonies are also discussed, highlighting the unfurling narrative of cultural variation and change over time.
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Chapter 8. Childhood
Abstract
Lullabies and play-songs are a pervasive part of human culture across the globe, and examples of these can also be found in early records of human history. Garrido and Davidson here consider historical examples of these specialized genres for children with some cross-cultural comparisons, before considering modern day examples of childhood music that continues to hold special significance for many people. They further consider how children’s music is perpetuated across multiple generations as parents sing to their children the music that their parents and grandparents sang to them. However, over time, social contexts and changing viewpoints about childhood are reflected in the evolving content found in typical children’s songs from different time periods.
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Chapter 9. Coming of Age and Birthdays
Abstract
Coming of age, in which an individual passes from childhood to adolescence or adulthood, is argued by some to be the ‘rite of passage’ that is subject to the greatest cultural variability. This chapter considers the role of music in this ritual in a variety of cultural contexts. The authors discuss how analysis of lyrics and musical features of modern day choices for coming of age celebrations reflect modern attitudes towards adolescence and adulthood, suggesting conflicting desires to both escape the constraints of adult regulation and to prolong the carefree period of youth. The chapter also traces the emergence of adolescence as a distinct stage of life through the musical practices surrounding coming-of-age-rituals through history until the modern day.
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Chapter 10. Love and Heartbreak
Abstract
From the troubadours to the love ballads of the twenty-first century, themes of love, romance and heartbreak have permeated music across the centuries. Garrido and Davidson in this chapter survey the history of the love song, and provide an in-depth examination of the music used in the modern day to create an atmosphere of romance, to celebrate falling in love and to deal with crushing heartbreak. These strands of evidence demonstrate both the continuities throughout history in love as a theme in music, and how music reflects changing attitudes towards love and relationships over the course of history.
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Chapter 11. Weddings
Abstract
Garrido and Davidson here consider the domination of church music in weddings across the last 500 years of Western culture, along with examples from non-Western cultures. Modern day examples depict changing attitudes towards marriage. However, commercial influences and the growing reach of the media have helped maintain an interest in wedding ‘traditions’, albeit relatively new ones. Thus, as weddings become more about personal expression for the couple involved, for many they have simultaneously become about mirroring the lives of celebrities.
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Chapter 12. Funerals and Mourning Rituals
Abstract
From specialized song-forms for the funerals of children in Latin America to the polyphonic laments of Georgia, music has long had a key role to play in rituals of death. In this chapter Garrido and Davidson consider a number of examples from both European and non-European cultures and their transformation in colonized nations. The authors trace historical changes in attitudes to life, death, religion and personal expression, in considering the path that funeral music choices have taken in the past and in the modern day. The function of music in coming to terms with death and loss and in creating ongoing connections with lost loved ones is also discussed.
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Chapter 13. Towards a New Contextual Psychology of Music and Emotion
Abstract
In this final chapter, Garrido and Davidson draw together the multi-faceted strands of evidence from their review of historical and musical sources, and their empirical study of modern day music choices to propose a comprehensive and innovative model of music, memory and emotion that takes into account the numerous variables discussed throughout the volume. They reiterate their argument that music, emotion and memory lie at the heart of musical choices and behaviours. They furthermore argue that the multi-disciplinary perspectives they have taken, merging historical approaches, musicology and psychology, can provide a model for future research that will enable a rich understanding into emotions and the role of music in human society.
Sandra Garrido, Jane W. Davidson
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Music, Nostalgia and Memory
verfasst von
Sandra Garrido
Jane W. Davidson
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-02556-4
Print ISBN
978-3-030-02555-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02556-4