- By Prerna Targhotra
- Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:38 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
World Music Day 2024: Amongst the things we can’t live without, music surely tops the chart. What would be a party without music or a wedding without music beats? Music is an important part of our lives that serves our health and well-being without our knowledge. On June 21, people across the world celebrate World Music Day to recognise the importance of music and the role it plays in our lives.
Raising music to the status of an art form that is more accessible to people of all ages is the goal of World Music Day. It is honourable day to foster an open atmosphere, encourage listening to a range of musical styles, and embrace art for upcoming generations. Music plays a big role in our daily lives. Everyone likes to listen to music while they go about their daily lives, be it cooking, travelling, or simply accomplishing schoolwork.
What Your Music Tells About You?
On World Music Day, Tanushree Sangma, Expressive Arts Based Therapist & Counselling Psychologist, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon explained what our music playlist tells us about our personalities.
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According to Ms Sangma, a person listens to 30 songs, and out of the 30 songs, some are added to the playlist named ‘When in a sad mood’, ‘Music while driving’, ‘Morning Music', ‘Happy Music’, or ‘Music to Soothe’. Music playlists are more about moods, preferences, interests, activities that a person is engaging in, and time of day, and less about what they say about you. Which songs and music go into an individual’s personal playlist is often determined by the person’s liking for a song, its relatability, and their emotional state.
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Music playlists are often a helpful way to engage the mind and body, a tool to destress, and a means to regulate one’s mood when feeling excited, anxious, nervous, low, or angry.
However, it is not just the action of immersing oneself in listening to songs that is therapeutic; it is also the effort and process that go into selecting the songs and naming the equally therapeutic playlist.
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The selection of songs for a playlist involves the process of exploring familiar, new, and relatable music, with each piece serving a therapeutic purpose for the listener. This form of engagement also allows the listener to reflect, think, and feel. Hence, when it comes to mental health and music playlists, it is often about what music can do for the listener.