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I have to say studies like this serve no purpose except to justify the existence of psychologists.Do they have nothing better to do than to completely bullshit people by such subjectivity? If anyone is further interested in how music affects people and want to learn more about it from a musicological point of view,then go that road.Atleast the information you will be receiving (hopefully) will be prepared by people who know something about music.If this study had any validity(from the info given) it would define the first paradigm of musicology;that being that people apply their own meaning to music rather than music applying meaning to a person.Music is the catalyst;not the source of meaning.As one music writer stated after Kurt Cobain's suicide (when all the psychologist's were running around telling people there are secret messages in the music and parents should beware because kid's everywhere will start killing themselves);If Nirvana's music gave meaning to people,there would be10 million suicides.I would post a musicology essay concerning this topic I wrote in my 4th year at school but it is to long (approx. 80 pages) and to boring to exert such energies.
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