How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal

ISBN-13: 9780367751364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 178 str.

Steven Gamble

Opis

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodied cognitive science, psychology, and cultural studies, the book provides a new way of understanding how music affects listeners.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Listening to popular music in everyday life: an ecological-embodied approach; Chapter 3 Individual empowerment in rap and metal music listening; Chapter 4 Music as a lifeline: listening for resilience; Chapter 5 The empowerment of popular music communities; Chapter 6 Can music change the world? Empowerment, politics, and social change; Chapter 7 Conclusion

O autorze

Steven Gamble is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork, studying digital-native hip-hop. His research on experiences of listening and fandom in the Internet age has been published in Popular Music, the Journal on the Art of Record Production, Metal Music Studies, and Palgrave Macmillan’s Pop Music, Culture and Identity series.