Rock 'N' Revolt - Isabelle Leymarie
Isabelle Leymarie’s piece “Rock ‘N’ Revolt” is an essay that discusses the effect music has on emotions. The main focus of this piece is the relationship between music and violence. She also demonstrates the effect music has on plants and animals to emphasize her point.
Leymarie’s tone throughout this piece is concerned and accusatory. Every time ( Read more... )
The plant example I think is a great one. By that experiment one could argue that heavy metal is bad for us, classical violin good, and disco the best of all. Do you suppose this physiological effect of growing "even more lushly" to disco is the reason disco fans have afros?
To your question on have I considered this theory before:
Some of my most profound "glimpse[s] of the divine" in church have been accompanied by music. This has often caused me to wonder if God is simply an illusion of music, of emotion? Is this "glimpse of the divine" just my brain reacting to sound? Or does music somehow alter my perception to see the universe in a different way, like a telescope or microscope? I have no answers to these questions because of all our sciences ability to answer how, I have never heard a reasonable why.
To me music is the expression of the soul. That of course presupposes the existence of a soul, but I do not think that if music were merely an expression of emotion that it would affect so many, so profoundly.
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