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‘em art music idioms (I include Holst’s band music in these idioms). While it
be interesting to examine different styles, such as contemporary, pre nineteenth
ity, and popular styles, it is also sensible for the time-teing to restrict the number
‘les investigated, given that continuous response methodologies are still being
lished and are already associated with a potentially large number of complex,
icting variables, Restricting stimuli to the romantic music idioms is logical because
are idioms that are defined by the importance of expressing emotion (c.g.
man 1987).
tinuous self-report measures have arisen from a need to provide greater ecological
ity in emotion-in-music investigations and through technological developments,
rave made such an approach to research feasible. However, researchers using this
‘odology need to remain cognisant as to why they are using the technology. It seems
perimental music psychologistshave required a period ofexplorationand discovery
sre fully realize the potential of continuous response measures.
conclusion, continuous response researchers need to become more aware of the
tical problems created by serial correlation, an inberent part of much time-
data. There are simple, effective solutions available for dealing with the problem,
as differencing, autoregressive adjustment, and other techniques associated with
ssion-type analysis. I is vital that researchers are willing to apply these methods
ther non-parametric techniques to maximize the benefits of continuous research
adology, and in particular to exploit its capacity to provide a basis for understand-
e sill elusive dynamic nature of emotion in music.
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TTCHAPTER 18
EMOTIONS IN EVERYDAY
LISTENING TO MUSIC
JOHN A. SLOBODA AND SUSAN A. O’NEILL
c are several key assumptions underpinning our focus on emotion and ‘everyday’
c listening. Firstly, music is always heard in a social context, in a particular place
rime, with or without other individuals being present, and with other activities
1g place which have their own complex sources of meaning and emotion, The
ional response to the music i coloured, and possibly sometimes completely deter-
sd, by these contextual factors, Emotions should not be thought of as abstract
is such as ‘anger’ or ‘elation; but rather as actual moments of emotional feelings
lsplays in particular situations within a particular culture. Emotional responses to
c are linked to a sequence of events based on conventions and rules that depend
nly on shared understanding and representations, but lso a common background
jowledge and beliefs. Music isa cultural material (as is language) that provides a
of semiotic and affective ‘power’ which individuals use in the social construction
rotional feeling and displays. As such, the impact of music on emotion is not direct
nterdependent on the situations in which itis heard. Any meaningful account of,
C's role in the emotional response of individuals must involve the recognition of
complex, interdependent social factors. We therefore focus in this chapter on
al investigations which attempt to preserve, or take account of, as much of the
I context of music listening as possible.
condly, music is ubiquitous in contemporary life. The prevailing contexts in which
\counter music are, by definition, mundane. They include those contexts in which
rost routine activities of life take place: waking up, washing and dressing, cating,
ing, shopping, travelling. There are, of course, special and ‘out of the ordinary’
s which music can form a part of, even a crucial and defining part, but we would
that in order to understand fully these special events and their emotional signif
, we must consider them in relation to everyday experience. I is the everyday and
ial which frames and helps define the special. This chapter focuses, therefore, on
ual and routine modes of engagement with music.
irdly, despite the growing recognition that our experience of emotion is inextricably
d to the social world and the linguistic practices used to make sense of that world,
nd to think of our emotions as personal, ‘private’ experiences, especially if they do
avolve ‘public’ emotional displays. For example, when we feel angry, we might
ce our anger 38a private emotion which may or may not be‘acted out in theAUSIC AND EMOTION
in which the Ifalok (Samoan and Pintupi Aborigines) use emotion words to
their relationship to events and other people, and notas expressions of private,
states. The closest translation of anger in the Ifaluk language is the word ‘song’
1eans justifiable anger. It isnot considered a privately owned feeling but rather
and public account of some transgression of accepted social practices and
cf. Burr 1995). As such, emotional feelings and displays are not considered to
it internal states of an individual (whether innate or acquired through learning
erience) that result in physiological reactions to environmental stimuli. Rather,
meaningful displays that are taken as emotional when they are embodied
ons of judgments, and in many cases, ways of accomplishing certain social acts,
& Gillett 1994). Our focus in this chapter is on research which attempts to
and, atleast in part, the inextricable connection between individual personal”
ral experience and the ‘social’ forms of meaning associsted with music listening
rerspective makes it necessary to exclude any significant treatment of three types
amenon. The first exclusion relates to the extremely intense, sometimes transcen-
periences to music which people characterize as defining or life-changing (e.g
sson & Lindstrm 1995; see also Gabrielsson, this volume). These events rarely
the lives of individuals,and soare difficult to study empirically. One retrospective
Sloboda (1989a), which we will discuss in more detail ina later section, provides
ve evidence that these peak’ events can occur in childhood, and, when they do,
a profound influence on a person's attitudes towards, and commitment to,
ndeed, people who devote their lives to music often inelude such experiences in
es of their developing commitment (e.g. Brodsky 1995). This, then, brings us to
nd exclusion of our chapter. We shall not be examining the everyday emotional
the professional musician or the intending professional musician (ie. the music
\- The emotional experiences ofthese groups are covered in other chaptersin this
cersson, this volume), and we would wish to claim thatthe everyday contexts in
rusicians experience music are so different from those of non-musicians (who
= vast bulk of the population of industrialized nations) that they require separate
at Finally, we do not intend to provide a comprehensive review of the literature
2d with emotional response to everyday music listening. Much of this iterature i,
elsewhere in this book (DeNora, this volume; Becker, this volume; Gabrielsson,
ime). In many cases, previous research in this area include laboratory studies or
ssi experimental research, which have quite specific socal features that make it
vany other music-listening situations. Rather, our aim isto highlight a number of
ares of research in this area which are based on the assumptions outlined above,
amples from several studies, many of which we have been involved in ourselves.
‘ay, we hope to address important questions that are leftunanswered by laborato-
‘ch, stimulate further discussion and debate on the topic, as well as indicate some
1s for future research.
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en attempt to experimentally manipulate) musical engagement in a single set-
cis difficult to observe directly the entire range of settings in which music might
rienced, even in the course of a single day. A second problem is that the every-
by definition, unmemorable, and so retrospective studies (such as interviews)
ot capture the richness and diversity of musical experience. The more mundane
fences are simply forgotten or filtered out. Understanding how music interacts
veryday contexts requires a method that not only exaraines the phenomenon in
vorld’ situations or events, but that does so as the events are unfolding and are
ienced by individuals in the course of their daily lives. For these reasons, we
wda etal, 2001) recently conducted a pilot study with eight individuals where we
ed a method developed by Csikszentmihalyi and Lefevre (1989) which enables
lay experiences to be studied in some detail. Our aim in presenting this research
to make generalizable claims about the frequency of musical occurrences in
Jay life. Rather, our aim is to illustrate, through this exploratory research, a
od in which we might begin to capture individual subjective experience of
on concurrent with everyday activities where music is heard, and highlight the
tic features of the findings in order to inform future theoretical development
search,
- method we employed in our study is known as the experience sampling method
) It involves participants carrying electronic pagers with them at all times during
raking hours. The pagers are connected to a computer that is programmed to call
ipants at preprogrammed intervals. In our study, participants were paged once in
hour period between 0800 and 2200. The precise timing of a call within each
1r block was determined randomly. On each paging, participants were asked to
yhat they were doing as soon as practicable and complete one page of a response
et, which they were also asked to carry with them at al times. The booklet asked
ons regarding the most recent experience of music listening since the previous
s. If there had been no music experienced in that peried, participants completed
oklet with respect to the activity taking place when the pager sounded.
eight participants in our study were all adult non-musicians between the ages of
d 40 years who were either studying or working at our institution (half of the
ipants were not involved in psychology). They each car-ied a pager with them for
eck period. Analyses of the data collected provided some quite revealing informa-
bout their everyday music use. First, 91 per cent of pagings resulted in a page of
Joklet being filled in (we call each event described ir the response booklet an
de’). This suggested a high level of compliance and involvement in this task over
ended period of time. It also meant that the method provided an almost complete
¢ of the musical and non-musical experiences of each participant over a normal
(none of the participants reported the week in question being unusual or atypical)
per cent of pagings which did not result in a report sheet being recorded were
rily due to technical problems, participants not having the pager with them at the
(eg. during swimming or showering), or participants not hearing the pager's
(e.g. due to travelling or being in a very noisy location).
econd major finding was that 44 per cent of all episodes involved music. In otherMUSIC AND EMOTION
4. Ithas repeatedly been claimed that music pervades everyday life. Our data
m this and provide a specific estimate ofits frequency.
ticipants were asked to respond in their own words to the question: ‘what was
‘ain thing you were doing?’ Reported activites were coded post hoc according
‘ee main categories: personal, leisure, and work, Personal activities cover those
day activities that are a necessary consequence of living, and were further
+d into states of being (e.g. sleeping, waking up, being ill, suffering from a
wver), maintenance activities (e.g. washing, getting dressed, cooking, eating at
« housework, shopping), and travel (eg. leaving home, driving, walking, going
). Leisure activities were divided into three subcategories: music listening
: were no examples of performing music), leisure-passive (e.g. watching
m, putting on the radio, relaxing, reading for pleasure), and leisure-active
ames, sports, socializing, eating out, chatting with friends). Work activities
categorized according to whether they were primarily solitary activities (e.g
{8 computing, marking/assessing, reading for study) or primarily group-based
ies (eg, planning for a meeting, in a lecture/seminar, making appointments,
reeting)
particularly significant that listening to music as a main activity accounted for
small percentage of all episodes (2 per cent). This suggests that the concentrated,
‘ve, focusing on music that is paradigmatic ofthe classical concertor the laboratory
‘ment is a rather untypical activity for most listeners. Instead participants were
vuting their attention across a complex situation of which music is only a part.
6 there were three categories of activity which seemed particularly likely to
« music. These were the personal maintenance, personal travel, and active leisure
tional reactions to the music were measured by asking participants to rate their
neleven bipolar scales (e.g. happy-sad,irritable-generous, bored-interested) with
tto how they felt before the music started and how they felt after it had ended. We
that these scales grouped under three main factors. The frst factor related to the
of positivity or negativity, the second factor to the degree of arousal or alertness,
« thitd factor to the extent to which participants’ attention was focused on the
t situation or elsewhere (e.g. reminiscing, daydreaming, nostalgic). These factors
haracteristics in common with previous research done on emotional response to
(ee Sloboda & Justin, this volume).
found that, on average, the experience of music resulted in participants becoming
2ositive, more alert, and more focused in the present. Insofar as such emotional
ions are desired and beneficial, it could be concluded that in general music made
>articipants feel better’. An examination of the number of episodes resulting in
« for each of the factors indicated that where there was change, arousal rarely
Lin the direction of lower arousal (7 per cent of changes), and little more so in the
‘on of less positivity (13 per cent). However, present-mindedness showed 35 per
“change episodes involving moves away from the'positive pole. It seems, in other
as though emotional states arising from a focus on ‘things and people not
15 such as nostalgia, are a particularly important subcategory within everyday
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2 Functional niches within daily life
- working assumption has been that music has different emotional functions in
erent contexts (cf. Merriam 1964). In our ESM study we were, therefore, interested
ee whether there were any cases in which mood change factors were dissociated
n one another (i. cases where one mood increased simultaneously with another
od decreasing). Inspection of cases showed that 16 per cent of music episodes were
nis category. These cases are particularly important in beginning to identify di
ctional niches for music engagement. The largest group of such episodes (1
ved increases in positivity along with decreases in present-mindediness
Nne example of this comes from a male participant who reported being at home
xing with a group of friends and acquaintances. The activity was being done out of
ice. There was ambient music playing on a CD, although the participant had not
sen it. The participant commented that ‘the music was very tranquil and relaxing,
others present were ‘discussing work boringly, and that he was very, very tired’
s episode was also associated with a decrease in arousal during the music. It would.
easonable to assume that the participant was using the music asa means of relaxing,
disengaging from the surrounding conversation,
second example from the same category is provided by a female participant who
srted being at home, tidying a bedroom as part of the normal basic routine. The
ipant had chosen to listen to apiece of popichart music on a tape. The participant
ymented that the music was chosen to enhance the wonéerful experience of cleaning’
‘was ‘very lively’ This episode was associated with an increase in arousal during the
ic. It seems as if the purpose of this music was to allow the participant to focus
ntion on the music, and away from the uninteresting domestic chore, and this
sed attention was used to increase energy levels.
‘was less easy to find examples of episodes where positivity decreased, but one clear
ode involved a female participant at home, alone, doing the washing up as part of a
c routine, She had chosen to listen to rock music on the radio and commented that
track was'a favourite song I had not heard for some time... It brought back certain
nories. The music increased this participant's nostalgia, sadness, and loneliness, at
same time as making her more alert. Itis clear that this esisode reminded the partici-
{ofa significant past event which brought on nostalgia. At the same time, it appears
she had chosen the music to engage and arouse during an uninteresting routine task.
1a separate study, usinga stratified sample of 76 panel members from the Sussex Mass
ervation Archive (Sloboda 1999; ee also Sheridan, 2000), respondents were asked to
¢,in open-ended fashion, about the uses they made of music in their everyday lives.
¢ 18.1 shows theactivities and functionsspontaneously mentioned by membersof the
ple. The most frequently mentioned activities were housework and travel. This mir-
<1 quite closely the distribution found in the ESM study. Functions mentioned were
ed but hada predominantly affective character, with many participants (particularly
nen) explicitly mentioning musicasa mood changer or enhancer. The most frequently
stioned function was essentially nostalgic. Participants found it natural to link
ions to activities, often mentioning both in the same sentence (c.g, on arrival home
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‘interview study involving 52 women ranging in age from 18 to 78 years, most of
were not accomplished musicians, DeNora (1999) also found examples of
nal self-regulation involving a number of musical strategies described by partici-
s‘rewing up’ of ‘calming down ‘getting in the mood’ (eg. fora particular social
‘getting out of a mood’ (e.g to improve a‘bad’ mood o:todestress), or venting?
emotions. For the most part, as in the two previously mentioned studies, these
redominantly described at the ‘personal’ or intrapersonal level as a means of
g, enhancing, sustaining, and changing subjective, cognitive, bodily, and self-
tual states. According to DeNora, the women exhibited considerable awareness
nusic they ‘needed! to hearin different situations and at different times, often
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ew upon elaborate repertoires of musical programming practice and a sharp awareness of.
‘mobilize music to arrive at, enhance, and alter aspects of themselves and their solf-
‘This practical knowledge should be viewed as part of the (often tact) practices in and
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addition to the emotional functions at the intrapersonal level, DeNora found
aples in which music played a social function in communicating emotions to
rs. For example, university student described repeatedly playing at full volume a
from Radiohead entitled ‘We Hope You Choke? not only as way of diffusing her
against her boyfriend’s parents when she lived with them over the summer
lays, but also as a way of communicating her anger to them. In other words, the
ay of anger or irritation described by the respondent expressed a judgment of the
al quality of some other person's actions. Such a display was also an act of protest
-ted towards the boyfriend’s parents. Music provided one means by which this
jay was ‘acted out at an interpersonal level. However, as DeNora points out, music
simply used to express some internal, private feeling or state, nor does it simply
upon’ individuals, like a stimulus. It is a resource for the identification work of
wing how one feels”—a building material of subjectivity” (DeNora 1998, p.41).In
way, music becomes part of the construction of the emotion itself through the way
hich individuals orientate to it, interpret it, and use it to elaborate, ‘fll in} or ‘ill
to themselves and others, an emotional feeling or display.
} Autonomy and individuality
of the questions in Sloboda, O'Neill, and Ivald’s ESM study asked participants to
the music in each episode on an 11-point scale according to the degree of personal
ce exercised in hearing the music (from 0 = none at ail, to 10 = completely own
ce). There was a significant effect of degree of choice on the degree of emotional
\ge experienced while listening to the music. For each emotion factor this showed a
lar effect—the greater the choice the greater the change. We found that high choice
tions were most likely to occur when the person was aione, travelling, or working,
ome of in a vehicle, or undertaking activities for duty. Low choice situations
red more often when with others, during ative leisure or personal maintenance
es, in shops, gyms, and entertainment venues, and when doing activities because
wants to, Most of these findings are not surprising, although the link between
ce and activities undertaken for duty is not intuitively obvious. It may be that
ssing music to accompany duties is a way of bringing some autonomy and person-
tion back to them, DeNora (1999) suggests that the music associated with duties is
asa catalyst to shift individuals out oftheir reluctance to adopt what they perceive
jecessary” modes of agency, and into modes of agency ‘demanded’ by particular
imstances.
he issue of choice and individuality also permeated the responses of the mass
vation panel (Sloboda 1999). Many of the musical situations described were soli-
and some participants graphically characterized a difference between the private
a, where emotional work of one sort or another could be accomplished with the
of music, and the public arena, where self-presentation or the conflicting demands
thers precluded this kind of activity. One respondent wrote: ‘When I'm down I
nto this [a specific track] and go down as far as I can, then I cry, I ery deep from
J. I wallow in self-pity and purge all the gloom from my body: Then I dry my eyes,MUSIC AND EMOTION
xd‘the car isthe only place where I can listen to it loud enough without annoying
reople.
\y participants displayed negative, or at best, ambivalent reactions to the music
ey experienced in public places, such as shops, restaurants, and bars. These
es were sometimes associated with reports of dramatic behavioural consequences
igh emotional charge (c.g. abruptly leaving a shop with disliked music, arguing
vaiting staff in a restaurant about getting the music turned off). In several
ses, the appropriateness of the music was a major theme. Judgments were made
bout the situation itself, and about the fit between tke music and the person's
entity and preferences. For example, restaurant music could be acceptable so
it matched the ambience or mood of the venue (e.g. oriental music in an oriental
ant, ‘mellow’ music during a romantic encounter), or if its general acoustic
eristics matched the listeners’ needs (e.g, not so loud that conversation was diffi-
at loud enough to cover potentially embarrassing silences and to prevent people
‘by tables overhearing one’s conversation). In other cases, although music in
places might be generally disliked, exceptions were made where the music itself
uc for the participant (¢g.‘I have discovered Waterstones Bookshop in Newcastle
‘ood music: the last time I was there Beethoven's ‘Egmont Overture’ was playing,
«trouble is that I pay more attention to the music than to finding the book |
In this example, because the music was judged to be ‘good’, the participant was
ced to let his appreciation of the music partially override his main intention of
a book. The issue of ft’ between music and its context has been investigated
‘nentally. For instance, North and Hargreaves (2000) showed that people make
ent discriminatory judgments about the music tha is suitable for such activities
bic exercise or yoga, and that specific characteristics ofthe music (e.g. tempo) are
ated in these judgments.
‘eis evidence that resistance to music in public places increases with age. DeNora
found that most of her respondents over 70 years (and, interestingly, those who
‘ined musicians) found it antithetical to conceive of music as background’ to
ag. Data from the Sussex Mass Observation Archive also showed that males in the
year age group reported more negative emotional recctions to music in public
than any other group. It may be hypothesized that the higher average status a
has, the less tolerant it will be of removal of autonomy. However, there are also
‘nore complex subcurrents to do with intergenerational and intergroup stereo-
The following example reveals much about the attitudes of one middle-aged man
public self-presentation of some younger men: I also dislike the din that some
ake when they pass by, infesting the streets with their thumping noises from
How they can drive properly with such a din in their cars, God knows. It
ris me too that they wouldn't be able to hear the sound of an ambulance or police
h such a noise going on inside their cars. It seems to me, rather like the fastest
» its usually young men between the age of 17 and 25 who are the main culprit
sually like to have their driving, seat window open, elbow leaning out of the car
oking macho: It appears as though young people are more tolerant of, and
re towards, music in public places. Further investigation is needed of these
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ne phenomenon which deserves greater study and theorizing is the unique position
e busker (street mus the affections of even the most hardened opponents
sic in public places. Many mass observation respondents spontaneously singled
buskers as evading the opprobrium of other forms of public music. It often was
ted as relevant that this music is live rather than prerecorded. Two quotes are
ded as representative: Both my husband and I have performed on the streets. My
ands still a regular busker. This to me is musical entertainment at its purest form,
joy of busking i its spontaneity. Your audience is free to come and go as it wishes,
ty oF not pay, to listen or not listen. There is a beautiful freedom about busking that
e, and I hope we never lose street entertainment! “The music in the streets is accept-
Quite often the musicians are quite good and anyway the noise is dispersed.”
sably, street musicians do not undermine the sense of agency and autonomy that
pe like to experience. The musician is potentially amenable to interaction (you can
1est your favourite song, and audience reactions can be assumed to matter to the
cer). There is also a sense of groundedness in a busker. The piped music in shops is
duced by unknown people in unknown places, and mediated through hidden
duction mechanisms (e.g. an under-the-counter sound system), for hidden purposes
suspected manipulation of buying behaviour). The busker, by contrast, is earning
honest’ living by aiming to please and entertain through the exercise of visible craft
isthe result of personal effort and investment. It may also be significant that
jern busking is probably the phenomenon which comes closest to meeting the con-
ons under which most people in most cultures through history have interacted with,
sc. Its liv, public, improvisational, spontaneous, participatory, and social It
te a small arena of the communal in a pervading culture of individualism and iso
on. It may meet an emotional need that is quite fundamental, but which there are
‘opportunities to indulge in.
4 Personal and social identity
ecent years, there has been a growing questioning of traditional approaches to the
iy of identity, which fil to take into account the multiple dimensions of identity as a
tinual process of negotiation and change. Discursive psychology, which views iden-
as constructed out ofthe discourses that are culturally available to us and that we
‘when communicating with others, has radically alteree the way social psychologists
.ceptualize and study identity. Music provides numerous ways in which musical
terials and practices can be used as a means for self-interpretation, self-presentation,
for the expression of emotional states associated with the sel. According to DeNora
99, p. 50), a sense of self is locatable in music, in that ‘musical materials provide
ms and templates for elaborating self-identity’. For example, one of the respondents
ner study described a preferred type of musical material (juicy chords’) as like ‘me
life, associating certain musical structures with her sense of self. DeNora (1999,
51) suggests that ‘music isa “mirror” that allows one to “see one’s self” Iti, also,
wever, a "magic mirror” insofar as its specific material properties also come to contig-
"(c.“transfigure’,“disfigure’, etc.) the image reflected in and through its (perceived)USIC AND EMOTION
ere is this more apparent than during adolescence, where identities are being
xperimented with, and explored. According to Green (1999), music can offer a
L cultural symbol, which aids in adolescents’ construction and presentation of
cral studies suggest that musical tastes are predictive of a wide range of non-
activities and attitudes, such as clothing, media preferences, drug use, and
f sexual activity (Hanaken & Wells 1990; Lewis 1995),
+ as the processes involved with the formation and maintenance of adolescent
are key to an individual's self-image and well-being (e.g. Shotter & Gergen
ven we would expect emotions to be deeply implicated in this process. Because
olescents do not have jobs or family responsibilities they have more ‘dis-
Y time than many adults do (estimated as up to 50 per cent of waking hours by
\tmihalyi and Larson 1984). Much of this time is taken up with media use,
‘Vand music. Bighty-one per centof young people say that music isan important
heir life, and has influenced how they think about important issues (Leming
aisis in direct contrast to TV watching, which most adolescents do not believe
‘any major influence on their lives (McCormack 1684), In an experience-
{study of adolescent daly lives, Larson et al. (1989) found that music listening
siated with greater personal involvement than TV watching (which was asso-
ith feeling less happy, less alert, more passive, and more bored than at other
arson and Klciber (1993, p. 130) summarize their findings as suggesting that
oving lyrics of ballads and the hard-driving beat of tock appear to stimulate a level of
volvement that is lacking in TV watching. A teenager may be lying face-down on her
‘er mind is alive and active, thinking about fiends, school, or the Future:
cent study by North et al. (2000), marked gender differences were found in
1fs' reasons for listening to music. Girls were more likely to report that music
used as a means of mood regulation, whereas boys reported that music could
ns of creating an external impression with others, Iti perhaps not surprising
c girls than boys referred to emotionality in relation to music listening, given
culine’ identity tends to be associated with an ability to keep one’s emotions
€s reasoning, However, the boys’ reason for listening to music was particularly
1g in that the majority of respondents reported that they usually listened to
their own. Thus, the external impression the boys sought to accomplish did
ssarily involve direct social contact with others atthe time they were actually
to music. Rather, it appears as though adolescent boys, in particular, were
xwolved in the construction of their identity through the use of stereotypes and
role models associated with the music they listened to (e.g. the ‘macho’ and
age of male pop/rock musicians playing mainly guitars and drums). In
rds, the cultural stereotypes, atitudes, and opinions associated with par-
res of music appears to provide adolescent males with a vision of what it
» be ‘trendy’ or ‘cool; which is ‘acted out’ or reinforced during their music
experiences. O'Neill (1997) points out that adolescents’ musical values are
by culturally defined stereotypes that, once learned, are extremely resistant
and disconfirmation. In this way, musical associations or prevailing discourses’
which
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we might fashion or construct aspects of the self and the expression of emotional
associated with the self.
The balance between context and content
onal responses to music are a complex outcome of the contribution of a person's
mn to the content (i. the musical materials themselves and their associations) and
eactions to the social context in which the music is embedded. For instance, the
{ may determine the amount of attention available to place on the musical content
parent out shopping with an irritable and loudly complaining small child and
embarrassed by the hostile looks of other shoppers may barely notice the‘soothing’
t playing quietly in the background). At the same time, the content may be subtly
ing the way the person construes the context (e.g. the Mozart excerpt suggests the
sinal message that this is a“high-class’store for serious, well-behaved? adults, and
noisy children have no place here—thus intensifying the feelings in the parent of
rrassment and shame). These effects have been studied experimentally by, for
ce, manipulating music-film pairings or music-picture pairings and observing
vnstrued emotional meaning i affected (Cohen, this vole).
wever, everyday life does not provide opportunities for controlled manipulation
ables, and so itis difficult to disentangle the unique contribution of content and
. The work that comes the closest to providing an insight into these issues is a
by Sloboda (1989a) in which 70 individuals were asked to recall any incidents
he first 10 years of life that were in any way connected with music. This period
josen becatise a major aim of the study was to find connections between early
experience and later attitudes to music. For each incident recalled, participants
sked to say as much as they could about the context (who they were with, what
the music formed part of), and what meaning or significance the event had for
This allowed each incident to be assigned a value on each of two dimensions—an
al dimension, concerned with the musical content, and an external dimension
red with the context. On each dimension the significance could be positive,
3, or negative
en the 113 incidents elicited were cross-tabulated on these two dimensions, some
ting features emerged. First, there were very few cases where the musical contenthad
tive significance, One person recalled disliking the sounc of a particular setof pipes
surch organ, but there were few other clear cases. This was not however, the result of
view of childhood where ll negative memories had been erased, because there were
cases where the musical context was negative. Many people remembered situations
‘ety, pain, and humiliation, mainly connected with negative appraisal of theit
ality by adult authority figures (particularly teachers). The most extreme incident
herea teacher physically beat a child fora performance error. There were, however,
ve contexts t00. For instance, one respondent recalled rehearsing carols for a school
‘oncert, What gave the incidentits positive significance was the sense of enjoyment
gthe group, undertaking this festive preparation in place ofnormalacademic lasses.
: second important feature was the almost complete absence of incidents whereMUSIC AND EMOTION
night interpret this finding by supposing that where the immediate context is a
of threat or emotional challenge, there is little chance of musical content cap-
3 the emotional system. This study suggests that positive emotions derived from
‘ement with musical materials is only possible when the context is appraised as, at
‘emotionally neutral. The specific contexts where strong content-related emotions
“eft included home, church, and the concert hal, alone or with friends and family.
tended not to include lessons at school, or situations in the direct presence of a
+t. Although hopefully not inevitably so, it seems that formal instructional settings
tendency to be inimical to emotional engagement with music, This may be
se of the emphasis within such settings on achievement, success, and failure, with
mcomitant threats to self-esteem and self-worth. It has the paradoxical con-
‘ace that people may be driven to express their deepest znd most personal relation-
with music in private, or in supportive peer reference groups outside, and hidden
the formal educational process.
Everyday music use as self-therapy
preceding paragraphs, we have seen much evidence of music being used deliber-
and consciously to achieve psychological outcomes which are reflected in
‘nal change. Music clearly is used by people to make them feel better or different,
p them accomplish or attune themselves to some concurrent or anticipated
y. These kinds of activity have sometimes been, perhaps rather glibly, cited as
Ales of ‘self-therapy’ (Sloboda 198%b, 1992). However, therapy, as understood by
ists, is not simply about manipulation of emotions, itis about helping the indi-
in therapy to develop more appropriate and functional responses to the problems
1g (cf. Bayne & Nicolson 1993; Bunt & Pavlicevic, this volume). There is almost
agin the literature on everyday uses of music that would count as strong evidence
articular self-chosen music improves problem solving or decision making, as
sted to:no music, or different music. It would be an interesting study to ask people
ly themselves any self-chosen music for a period of time, and compare their
nent on a number of psychological measures to that found during normal music
53M would seem to be particularly well suited to the measurement ofthe effects of
ranipulations.
‘ever, the strong claims made by users of music ina wide range of studies,
ted by subjective and anecdotal evidence, make it likey that such effects do exist,
gh the mechanisms by which they are mediated are poorly theorized. There is,
et, one very plausible class of mechanisms by which music could have a thera-
effect. Much is made in the literature about ‘everyday’ psychological disorders,
5 depression or the effect of cognitive set or narrowing. A depressed person is
‘ocked in a cycle of negative and self-defeating cognitiens, unable to call to mind
ole alternatives to the narrow circle of linked aversive scenarios (Blaney 1986;
« & Williams 1998). These cognitions are also often accompanied by anomalous
of arousal, such as high anxiety, insomnia, or lethargy. Well-chosen pieces of
may be able to help individuals break out of such cycles by the specific combina
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rinsic cues may remind the person of situations, scenarios, people, and emotions
‘outside the closed loop of the pathological state. Intrinsic cues (the ebb and flow
ension, resolution, expectancy, etc.) may provide means for altering arousal states in
ive directions. In addition, the unique capacity of music to engender emotional
ase (asin crying; see Sloboda & Juslin, this volume) may be in itself therapeutic. For
cons that are not well understood, emotional release agpears to assist psychological
ustment (through a process sometimes called catharsis, eg. Davis 1988). A fuller
-king out of some of these ideas in the context of music's role in spirituality is
vided by Sloboda (2000).
7 Conclusion
a significant feature of many of the emotional feelings and displays that individuals
rience in relation to the everyday musical scenarios that we have outlined that
jough they may occur in solitude, their point of reference is the relationship between
‘music user and others. Although viewed as essentially ‘private’ experiences, involv-
‘a great deal of autonomy or agency, emotional feelings and displays are deeply
bedded in a social context, which exerts a powerful influence (albeit often implicitly)
our music listening, Reliving past relationships, constructing identity, using music to
hon off” emotions that are not for public presentation: all of these depend on, and
used to negotiate and develop, the complex web of cognitions and behaviours that
stitute sociallife.Assuch,music becomes partof the construction of emotional feelings
{displays that are both reflective and communicative ‘embodied! judgments used to
omplish particular social acts. In other words, musical emotions are a form of social
resentation, which is negotiated as an interaction between culturalfideological
ues of a society, the values and beliefs operating in a socal grouping or subculture in
t society, and the individiua’s own social and personal experience.
Our research highlights the importance of studying emotional feelings and displays as
‘tof a sequence of everyday music listening based on conventions and rules of a par-
ilar social context and the unfolding episodes in which they occur. Our recent study
oboda etal, 2001) involving electronic pagers and self-eports (experience sampling,
thod) provides one approach which may be used to capture individuals’ subjective
seriences of emotions during ‘eal, evolving musical episodes. Another possibilty is
approach the analysis of episodes involving music an¢ emotion in a similar way to
w we might analyse conversations in discursive psychology. This is not to say that we
ould analyse the actual vocabulary used by individuals to define emotion words in
ation to music. Rather, a ‘discourse’ in this sense can be thought of as a kind of frame
reference, a conceptual framework in which our emotional feelings and displays can
interpreted. One method of discursive analysis which nay prove particularly useful
the study of music and emotions is what has been referred to asthe ‘positioning triad’
: Harré & van Langenhove 1999). It consists of three elements: (a) the story (or con-
1) of an evolving episode; (b) the relative positions of individuals in terms of the
Itural/social conventions involved in speaking (and listening) during or about the
isode, displaying judgments, and/or expressing acts and (c) the social act the episodeMUSIC AND EMOTION
\Llife, evolving situations that could be used by researchers seeking to identify and
er our understanding of the role of music and the people engaging in emotional
ys.
wever, a word of caution may be necessary. Most of us are not aware of the fact
ur musical activities are completely enmeshed in a social and cultural world.
cngagement with music leads us to ‘forget’ or become unaware of the grounds on
1 our feelings and behaviours are based. This ‘forgetting’ is the product of years
ining, socialization, and the institutionalization of music. Not only have our
al practices become routine and invisible, but as musicians and psychologists we
tmited in our ability to describe musical materials in a way that is free of the
aptions and biases associated with our own experiences and training. For exam-
rere are many examples of research where specific discourses involving musico-
\Ucharacterizations of emotions (e.g. reference to specific musical works or to
ural and symbolic features of these works) are introduced before an attempt is
to characterize the user’s emotional responses in rection to them. In doing so,
tinue to perpetuate the historical projections and sccial preoccupations of the
4s professional elites that have dominated the work of defining what music is
“hat it is for, not only for themselves but for the wider culture. By turning our
ion to the role of emotional ‘work’ in relation to music, which takes into account
‘ual subjective experience of both emotional feelings and displays as they occur
ryday evolving situations, it might be possible to retrieve some of these forgot-
«hidden? practices. Only by revealing the meanings associated with our evalua-
udgments embedded within a particular context or general conceptual
‘work, can we hope to gain a better understanding of te complexity of emotions
tusic in everyday life
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