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      How Music Empowers
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      How Music Empowers

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      How Music Empowers book

      Listening to Modern Rap and Metal

      How Music Empowers

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      How Music Empowers book

      Listening to Modern Rap and Metal
      BySteven Gamble
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 15 March 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323034
      Pages 188
      eBook ISBN 9780429323034
      Subjects Arts, Behavioral Sciences
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      Gamble, S. (2021). How Music Empowers: Listening to Modern Rap and Metal (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323034

      ABSTRACT

      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. The argument develops from our latest conceptions of what it is to be human, investigating experiences of listening to popular music in everyday life. Through listening, individuals have the potential to redefine themselves, gain resilience, connect with other people, and make a difference in society.

      Applying a groundbreaking theoretical framework to postmillennial rap and metal, the book uncovers why vast numbers of listeners engage with music typically regarded as ‘social problems’ or dismissed as ‘extreme’. In the first ever comparative analytical treatment of rap and metal music, twenty songs are analysed as case studies that reveal the empowering potential of listening. The book details how individuals interact with rap and metal communities in a self-perpetuating process which keeps these thriving music cultures – and the listeners themselves – alive and well. Can music really change the world? How Music Empowers answers: yes, because it changes us.

      How Music Empowers will interest scholars and researchers of popular music, ethnomusicology, music psychology, music therapy, and music education.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Listening to popular music in everyday life

      An ecological-embodied approach

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Individual empowerment in rap and metal music listening

      chapter 4|27 pages

      Music as a lifeline

      Listening for resilience

      chapter 5|35 pages

      The empowerment of popular music communities

      chapter 6|28 pages

      Can music change the world?

      Empowerment, politics, and social change

      chapter 7|16 pages

      Conclusion

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