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Omar Alghamdi

Music in Our Life

This deliverable is directed at highlighting the effect that music has had on the social struggles and upheavals of the current time. It shows adequate resources that are crucial to the analysis of the pop culture in the United States, with the inclusion of the impact that such culture has beyond the borders of the country. It makes a reference to some sites on various forms of the pop culture, with the inclusion of music, television, advertisement, magazines, and cyber culture, among others.

Bloch starts his article by pinpointing the case of “abstraction” when it comes to art. It illustrates how this is simply some form of an illusion that can never be subjected to a thorough psychological analysis. The author stresses on his point of view regarding the artistic work, and even goes a step further to refer to them as being an “ideal graphology.” In that, it helps with the characterization of the author, in a way considered as most truthful and complete. Bloch continues by arguing that these occurrences even take place even if the artist is conscious of them or not. Art, music to be particular, helps in revealing the inmost nature, the virtues and several faults being upheld, temperament, and the degree of intellectuality and emotional faculties for the given artist. In conclusion, the writer argues that the richer the nature of the artist is, the more comprehensive his creation will become, hence showing the adequacy of his technique on craftsmanship.

Concerning Upheavals of the human's thoughts, Nussbaum provides a theory regarding one's emotions. She presents an argument that to best conceive emotions, one must first imagine them as ideas and then goes forth to state that emotion-thoughts have the ability to make some valuable additions to one's normal life (Cates, 2003). She goes forth to develop some large accounts of one’s compassion and the love as being the thoughts that provide the greatest moral support for an individual. The author majorly focuses on that which is meant for one to say that emotions contribute to the forms of thoughts by a person. It starts by raising some of the most critical questions regarding the conception of one’s structure regarding emotions, and also on the conception regarding compassion of an individual, individually (Cates, 2003). The author concludes by showing the importance of conducting an analysis of the structure, and the moral value, of one's emotions and how it requires one to start observing some religious practices, and maybe start listening to certain kinds of music.

The article by Kokonis, (2017), highlights some of the major crisis that Hollywood had to face in the recent memory. Although some consequences resulting from the significant problems encountered by Hollywood were mitigated, there are some which are still felt to this day. One such case is that of the post-war period that had much effect on the entire landscape of Hollywood and subsequently leading to a shift in the American cinema. Hence, Hollywood Renaissance is a radical transforming period that Hollywood underwent. With films like the case of Bonnie and Clyde marking the genesis of a transformation phase back to the real American cinema. Further, the sensitivities of the movie artists helped in bringing them closer to achievements of their European counterparts. Hence, the authors conclude that the period of between the 60s and the early years of 70s provided an indication of the rebirth of the Film Industry in American and brought the new dawn of what we majorly refer to as Hollywood, in the current world.

This article makes an argument that when an individual listens to extreme music, then he/she becomes prone to experiencing anger, and starts expressing anger in the form of hostility and felony. In helping with putting their point across, the researchers used 39 listeners of the extreme music of the age between 18-34 years and then subjected them to anger induction. Then measurements of the emotions with the inclusion of the heart rate and subsequent subjective rating as recorded on the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS). Ideally, the ratings of the aggression, prickliness, and stress tended to be on the rise, as measured by the PANAS, in the course of the anger induction but were very minimal after the music (Sharman, & Dingle, (2017). Therefore, music tends to be tore-tore with the physiological arousal of the individuals and hence lead to an increment in the individual's positive emotions. The researchers then made a conclusion that having to listen to extreme music provided a healthy manner in which anger could be processed for a broad range of listeners.

The article Smelser, & Haferkamp, (1992) starts by highlighting the social changes and the modernity and then proceeds to highlight the theories of social change. The choice of the two terminologies of “social change” and “modernity” was majorly due to the frequency of usage of these terms in the contemporary sociology and hence may be used to show a broad range of processes involving a change process. The article proceeds by calling upon individuals on the necessity of embracing a particular strategy to assist with the study of social change, from where some other explicitly recognized theories could be realized. The article proceeds by identifying how change is a social reality that must be addressed as soon as possible. Concurrently, it urges individuals to note that the ways in which social change has been identified tend to vary significantly in along the historical landscape. Finally, the article talks about the important role that music has played in the course of cementing the social change and modernity across the globe.

The article on Social Movements, Music, and Race. (2017) starts by highlighting the social movements, and how music tried to connect music and race. The movements decided to split into a pair, and it was only music that helped in bridging the boundaries. Through the aid of the black music and the white music. Besides the collaboration with universities also assisted in creating a real collaboration with the music to help in pursuing some elements of social change. The author always used folk music to help in instilling the spirit of ownership from the part of the leftist. The author also highlights how the left activists of the 30s and 40s ad even the civil right activists of the 60s make a claim of how folk music only belonged to them. Finally, we get to understand that the social movements in the United States majorly used music to help in unifying the various races and ideologists across the country.

References

Bloch, E. Man and Music (1st ed.). Retrieved from http://www.demusica.pl/cmsimple/images/file/bloch1_muzykalia_6_judaica1.pdf

Cates, D. (2003). CONCEIVING EMOTIONS Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought (1st ed.). Retrieved from http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/nussbaum/Review%20Conceiving%20Emotions%20Martha%20Nussbaum's%20Upheavals%20of%20Thought.pdf

Kokonis, M. (2017). Hollywood’s Major Crisis and the American Film “Renaissance” (1st ed.). Retrieved from http://www.enl.auth.gr/gramma/gramma08/kokonis.pdf

Sharman, L. & Dingle, G. (2017). Extreme Metal Music and Anger Processing. Retrieved 2 March 2017, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439552/

Smelser, N. & Haferkamp, H. (1992). Social Change and Modernity (1st ed.). UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford. Retrieved from http://www.communication-sensible.com/download/Social%20Change%20and%20Modernity.pdf

Social Movements, Music, and Race. (2017) (1st ed.). Retrieved from http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9210.pdf