PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL CONTENT OF EXTREME MUSIC AS A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSIONIN THE MUSIC-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE

Abstract

The article provides a review of emotional content perception of extreme music studies as an example of research hand data analysis of different music genres and directions’ emotional impact and experience. The music-psychological problematic of music emotional content perception in listeners’ different groups studies based on gender, age, or readiness to perceive a certain musical style acquires significance for anthropological hypotheses and generalizations. Some conflicting or incomplete data are presented to ask the following studies questions and set goals for future research. This review can serve as the beginning of a conversation with students learning music psychology and music-psychological anthropology about extreme music in a number of contemporary phenomena and musical subcultures based on scientific data. Future research may be aimed at studying the socio-cultural factors that determine this type of musical preferences, the contribution of extreme music listening experience to the psychological stability of its listeners and to the ability to self-regulate states also.