readings - music and pleasure

1 - Aesthetics and Musical Emotion

1 - Aesthetics and Musical Emotion

Cook and…

Cook, and Dibben (2010) “‘Emotion in Culture and History: Perspectives from Musicology’

Frith

Frith, (2004) ‘What is Bad Music?’

Meyer

 

Meyer, (1956) ‘Emotion and Meaning in Music’

2 - pleasure and the musical brain

2 - pleasure and the musical brain

Huron (plural)

Huron, (2005) ‘The Plural Pleasures of Music’

Huron (sad)

Huron (2011) ‘Why is sad music pleasurable?’

Margulis

Margulis, 2013 ‘on repetition’

Mencke

Mencke et al., 2019 'Atonal Music: Can Uncertainty Lead to Pleasure?'

3 - the listening body

3 - the listening body

Kapchan

Kapchan, (2015) ‘Body’

Garcia-Mispireta

Garcia-Mispireta, 2023 ‘Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor’

Trower

Trower, 2012 ‘Introduction: Hearing Vibrations’

Clare

Clare, 2019, 'ASMR: Bodily Pleasure, Online Performance, Digital Modality'

4 - the pleasure industries

4 - the pleasure industries

Adorno

Adorno, (1941) ‘On Popular Music’

Pelly

Pelly, (2025) Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist 

Taylor

Taylor, 2016 'Music and Capitalism : a History of the Present'

5 - power and pleasure

5 - power and pleasure

Lorde

Lorde, 2020 'uses of the erotic: the erotic as power'

6 - desire fantasy and love

6 - desire fantasy and love

Chandola

Chandola, 2019 '‘Faking It’: Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums'