A song to combat anxiety

Music has been incorporated into our individual and collective life. Music is listened to individually but also in public spaces to create an environment and even to increase consumption. A certain music is preferred and another type is avoided and it is even used as therapy to reduce states of anxiety and / or stress.. In fact, music allows to express and share feelings and experiences and is a form of social relationship (concerts, sporting events, etc.). Langer (2009) affirms that “Music is the language of emotions”, since sounds never lie, and for Yehuda (2011) music has a true authority.. Applying the term affordance , created by Gibson in his ecological theory of visual perception, points out that musical affordance allows the union and appropriation of musical structural properties by the receiver. This interaction is for Batt-Rawden and Tellnes (2011) the foundation or reason why music can allow certain types of uses or interpretations and be present in a variety of social and personal contexts where mood is regulatory and can be described as a way of constructing meaning. Thus, music can be interpreted or used in three ways:. –as a tool that allows building different forms of one’s own experience and social relationship;. –as a catalyst to achieve a change of mood, or improve the different psychological states of mind;. –as a reinforcer of positive and / or negative affects in search of a...

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