music & beahavior

wer of music
Music can have a very powerful influence on our emotions, moods and behaviour. This has been recognised through the ages. Historically, it has been used for such varied purposes as bolstering courage before battles, singing babies to sleep, enhancing the courtship process and accompanying rites of passage through life. It has been used to incite rebellion and it can challenge the status quo. In some cultures music has been viewed as sufficiently powerful for governments to attempt to control or ban it. In Nazi Germany, music was carefully selected for use at mass rallies to generate appropriate patriotic emotions. In the USSR, the music of Shostakovich was censured by the Soviet government. During the Cultural Revolution in China, Western music was denounced as decadent and forbidden. In Iran, when Ayatollah Khomeni was in power, tight restrictions were placed on particular types of music. In white dominated South Africa, centres of African music were demolished, while mu...