How Music Empowers Listening To Modern Rap And Metal Steven Gamble by Steven Gamble 9780429323034, 0429323034 instant download after payment.

How Music Empowersargues 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 musicreallychange the world?
How Music Empowersanswers: yes, because it changesus.

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