Summary and Conclusion: Towards an Ethical Musicality
摘要
Music as a phenomenon is usually associated with positive things and comfortable feelings like in celebrating. Similarly, music studies including music therapy have emphasised the positive role of music for the humanity. As described by Papaeti (2020, p. 2), it took until the end of the twentieth century before the musicology and ethnomusicology began to be really interested in studying the use of music as a violence and oppression. For music therapy, it took even a bit more until the beginning of twenty-first century when the adverse effects of music were more discussed and studied, including the mechanisms and methods of using music as a violence and torture (Alanne, 2005, 2010; Moreno, 1999). This is in spite of the fact that modern music therapy developed as a treatment and science during WWII. Treating soldiers and their pain in wars had even longer roots. However, music therapists did not seem to study the other side of music used in wars but were focusing to study the benefits of it. First, anthropologists were studying more the mechanisms and methods of using music in violence (Papaeti, 2020, p. 2).