We Listen To Music By Anthony Stoorr
Music is one of the most powerful forces on this earth. Not only does it greatly impact our lives in ways we may not always be aware of, it can instantly change ones emotion or mood and can also heal ones spirit, along with making memory more real than ever. Music is a very positive experience, it brings joy to many in times of sadness. It can be a way to get away from everything, a way to “escape”. Humans are made and wired to respond to music, to be impacted by it. We listen to music with our muscles, with our body, and it’s as if it takes over our minds. Not one person hasn’t experienced this, it is evident in all of us (tapping feet, humming, singing along, body movement with the rhythm of the song). This can even occur without our knowledge
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People would come together to sing and dance, in every culture, whether it would be around a fire, in church, or in peoples own homes. According to Music and the Mind written by Anthony Storr, “This primal role is to some extent is lost today, when we have a special class of composers and performers, and the rest of us are often reduced to passive listening. One has to go to a concert, or a church or a musical festival, to recapture the collective excitement and bonding of music. In such a situation, there seems to be an actual binding of nervous systems, the unification of an audience by a veritable ‘neurogamy’”. This is very intriguing. It’s as if when people get together to not only listen to music, but to fully engage in the music, everyone becomes “one body”, synchronized together. We see the overwhelming power music can have on an audience, at concerts where the music and beat is at an overly excessive volume. Members of the audience, as one, may be taken over, engulfed or entrained by the music. Music is powerful enough to create energy. The energy someone feels at a concert, if they be fully engaged, can be an energy unlike any other. It’s like the music takes over the audience, making everyone jump up and down, chanting and singing along to the song lyrics of the artist
People would come together to sing and dance, in every culture, whether it would be around a fire, in church, or in peoples own homes. According to Music and the Mind written by Anthony Storr, “This primal role is to some extent is lost today, when we have a special class of composers and performers, and the rest of us are often reduced to passive listening. One has to go to a concert, or a church or a musical festival, to recapture the collective excitement and bonding of music. In such a situation, there seems to be an actual binding of nervous systems, the unification of an audience by a veritable ‘neurogamy’”. This is very intriguing. It’s as if when people get together to not only listen to music, but to fully engage in the music, everyone becomes “one body”, synchronized together. We see the overwhelming power music can have on an audience, at concerts where the music and beat is at an overly excessive volume. Members of the audience, as one, may be taken over, engulfed or entrained by the music. Music is powerful enough to create energy. The energy someone feels at a concert, if they be fully engaged, can be an energy unlike any other. It’s like the music takes over the audience, making everyone jump up and down, chanting and singing along to the song lyrics of the artist