Posts tagged psychology
Posts tagged psychology
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This is really interesting and brings up a few questions for music education: how do we (and can we even try to?) go about teaching this? There’s the straightforward, mostly academic “instruments, important figures, significant songs and albums, swing feel, groove, blues scales, syncopation, etc. etc.” kind of approach that I’ve experienced in my own education, but is that all that it really takes to get your brain to start working in this way? For the sake of facilitating education I think it’s probably important to try and focus on this, see if the study and its results can be replicated consistently in order to see if a teaching method can be derived that can best scaffold the student towards this kind of behavior, but at the same time I feel like that’d take away a lot of the fun of playing jazz. Wouldn’t it be more serendipitous if we just arrived there accidentally-on-purpose?
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Shocking inferences of teen rebelliousness and even disregard for their own hearing health come from a University of Colorado study of 29 metro-area Denver teens who participated in a survey about their iPod use and attitudes toward music.
There are a few interesting psychological inferences that can be made from this study. I suggest clicking through to the source in order to read more about how teens were found to be much more likely to listen to music loudly in order to ignore their environment and disobey authority figures.
I’d be interested to read about a similar study that looks at hearing damage and where there is any type of correlation between it and this kind of (risky?) behavior.
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