how music affects our everyday lives

Considering its social and psychological funtions , discuss the role and importance of music to our everyday life

Self-identity, mood, interpersonal relationships(Hargreaves and North, 2004)

Who we are affects how we act and interact with others ?

How we feel and manage our lives, co-ordinate large numbers of people and offer a sense of group identity (Hallam, Cross, and Thaut, 2009)

Something people can relate to and relate to others with …...

Escape from reality –healing mechanism (bad day, play music connect to something else, lose yourself) or listen music to happy music to change your mood, babies and lullabies?

Express themselves

What is music --- (Indian music---music is like emotional paint –colour the mind)

Expression of emotion—music

Link to music and emotion? ---music is emotion????

The message –lance Richardson>>>>>>>>>’we use music to help us in our learning process …. children can use it to learn alphabetical letters for example

Spiritual link to music??

Means of communication --- communicate values and identity (

Bring back memories, improve focus and creativity, affect our personalities –

bring people together--- sense of belonging

making music --- groups – increase trust (requires co operation)

reciprocal—the same

cohesion –state of togetherness

social cohesion ---allow people to transcend beyond the physical connection
divent behaiviour ---

need to belong – isolation (stress links and other health problems ) ---fundamental (marslows higher archy of needs—middle of the pyramid---archieve the lower needs before we can attain the top ones) , drives us to take part in social activities –sport teams , religious groups --- belonging allows us to experience companionship and acceptance (self esteem) –(higher level in the pryramid)

concerts (feel good)

strength in numbers , more people more knowledge –more can be accomplished in larger numbers

when we are born –sense of belonging –family