Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Sad-in a nice way!

Every month, the website "hear here" has a special music related theme. This month they focus on music psychology and mostly music in everyday life. Most contributions come from the music psychology group from Keele University of which I am part. Check out the site for Augusts "Listen and Discuss" called: "An outburst of the soul" and find besides the wonderful pieces of Alex, Alinka, and Andreas, mine on mood regulation.
My piece is about mood regulation with music and points out a new approach to mood regulation. I distinguise broad strategies like distraction and relaxation from tactics (or tools), like listening to music, and excersizing. I claim that the tactics like music listening can help the broader strategies, and I point out how widely used and how varied the outcome of music listening can be. If you lost it by now, check out the piece. The piece is called: Sad-in a nice way!

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