Military Ethnomusicology: Understanding the Positive Impact of Music on the United States Military within the American Society

Abstract

Music is universal to every human society. Martial music has played an integral, positive role for the military. Music helps unite societies and their military forces in times of war and peace. Martial music has been used to communicate, enhance discipline, as a psychological instrument of war, to calm troops, and to improve esprit de corps. Understanding the universal, timeless nature of muisic generates enhanced fighting spirit for success on the battlefield.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2010
Accession Number
ADA603252

Entities

People

  • Stephen D. Driskill

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Battlefields
  • Civil War
  • Health Services
  • Human Body
  • Human Emotions
  • Marine Corps
  • Military History
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • New York
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.