How to be Happy
AN Music Make You Happy?" was the question asked in a recent programme from 3YA entitled Moods in Music. This is a theory that has been pursued with varying degrees of success from the days of the Ancient Greeks up to those of the present day production- ; rate experts, so I was sorry that the re- , eordings played did not leave me even remotely cheerful. (The psychologists, however, might claim that my having just missed the last bus home had something to do with this). But there are few things more infuriating than a collection of hilarious tunes at the wrong moment. They may have just the opposite effect, as the psychologist who visited a cannibal tribe with a portable gramophone and a selection of records ranging from Arthur Askey to a Schubert Allegro discovered to his cost. It is true, however, that music has been tried in almost every department of life to induce a state of happiness-from the mother singing to her baby, to the snake charmer. Maybe in these days of the
radio our senses have been so dulled by large doses of recorded happiness that we don’t react as well as we should. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 429, 12 September 1947, Page 9
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201How to be Happy New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 429, 12 September 1947, Page 9
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