This week I chose to explore the
phycology around live music and its impact on the audience. Knowing how it
personally has a positive impact on my life as I use music as I use it as an
outlet from other life obligations, also known as my “day job”. Reading Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review
of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning,
and accomplishment by Adam Croom, I explored the idea that music
has a positive impact on someone’s well-being. Music can have a positive
impact on the physiological and physiological heath of individuals.
The article discusses the notion
that well-being consists of “PERMA: positive emotion, engagement,
relationships, meaning and accomplishment.” With positive emotion comes a
stronger engagement level, at which time ones ability to have positive
relationships will form. With these relationships will come a heightened life
meaning that will lead to a greater feeling of accomplishment.
When selecting this article, I
found that my previous search strategies could be applied from the beginning.
Where in the past I chose to start with a broad search, I found that narrowing
my search from the beginning, using all key words in a SmartText search, filtering
only scholarly, full text articles, helped alleviate some frustration and speed
up the search process. This allowed me to spend more time on scanning search
results of articles that more closely reflected my topic.
I did find it difficult to discover
scholarly articles that discussed the “how to” in planning and organizing a
music event. As such I focused my research on my motivation behind the event.
Music is an important part of my life and I want to ensure it is an important
part of the community in which I live. Community service is also something that
brings joy to me as well. My goal of creating a music event to share music to
the community as well as raise funds for charity will bridge these two
passions.
As I continue my research in
planning, organizing and implementing my “Napa Live” event, I hope to gain a
well rounded proposal of the event that explores not only the financial gain
for the community but also the physiological impact the event could bring.
Wow such a big earthquake must have been really hard. I'm proud of your emotional recovery and response. I too am a musician so your research is really speaking to me. I was in band classes from 6-12 grade on tuba mostly but I've been playing bass guitar for the past five years or so. I like the way your research is related not to some plan you may or may not end up doing (mine's on my future career path I'm considering) it's on a very down to Earth topic to you. I really like how you're also researching both the financial and psychological impacts music has as it truly can change a life. I wish you the best of luck finding good free sources to help with your planning that are also relevant to the US.
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