The Listening Environment and Its Effect on the Perceived Meaning of Music Case Study on Headphone Listening--------- ------------- ------------INTRO------------------------ ----------The study of what a song or piece of music "means" or how it is interpreted is a widely studied and highly debated subject that includes many different viewpoints and many types of analyses. A variable often overlooked in these analyzes is the effect of the listening environment. on the meaning of music. These environments include restaurants, stores, home, gym, automobile, concert hall, place of worship, personal stereo??????????????? ??? From Thomas Edison's phonograph and Emil Berliner's gramophone technological advances have made music available to be consumed in a variety of ways, allowing people to choose when and where they listen to music. TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS (BERGER 1936) RATIONALE (WHY IT IS WORTH WATCHING) THIS IS THE FURURE OF THE USIC LIST?? IS GETTING STATS ON IPOD/PERSONAL STEREO LISTENING BEING MOST IMPORTANT?--------------------------------METHODOLDGIE---- - -----------------------HERMENEUTICS – What does music mean? How can we interpret it?HERMANUTICS:DEFINITION FOUND AN ARTICLE DESCIBING HOW HERMINUTICS IS USED IN MUSICONTOLODGY? (TECHNOLOGY) - HIEDZINGERAURA OF THE CAPTURED WORKIn this newspaper they sent a questionnaire to 346 people and they each received a text per day for 14 days and upon receiving the text they had to respond via SMS what music they could heard or had heard since the last time. text. Some interesting conclusions were drawn from this study, for example: it showed that most people liked listening to music in a more isolated way. Additionally, people listened to music more outside of the ...... middle of paper ...... tput, right output, or both (the center) (Owsinski 2006:20). As usual, it was the Beatles who initially made the most daring use of stereo switching. Throughout the stereo mix of "A Day In The Life;" for example, the final track of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the lead vocal tracks of John Lennon and Paul McCartney are switched to every possible position along from the horizontal plane. During the first two verses, Lennon's vocals are shifted to the far right. However, during the third verse, Lennon's vocal track is shifted to the center and then to the left; You may notice that when Lennon's vocal track reaches the center along the horizontal plane, its volume decreases during the bridge, McCartney's vocals are flipped to the right. For the final verse, Lennon's vocals are flipped. to the leftmost position along the horizontal plane.