Vassar College Digital Window @ Vassar Senior Capstone Projects 2020 “All we hear” navigating our relationship with music in the age of Spotify Julianna DeAngelis Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone Recommended Citation DeAngelis, Julianna, "“All we hear” navigating our relationship with music in the age of Spotify" (2020). Senior Capstone Projects. 1046. https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone/1046 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Window @ Vassar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Window @ Vassar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 1 “All We Hear” 1 Navigating Our Relationship with Music in the Age of Spotify Julianna DeAngelis Vassar College May 10th, 2020 A Senior Thesis in Media Studies Adviser: Dara Greenwood Second Reader: Giovanna Borradori 1 T aylor, R. (1984). Radio GaGa [Recorded by Queen]. On The Works [record] Los Angeles: EMI, Capitol. (1983) 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements : “It’s Such A Wonderful Thing To Love”…………………………………...3 Introduction: “I Just Know That Something Good is Gonna Happen”…………………………...4 Chapter 1: “Let’s Go Girls”: Literature Review…………………………...……………………...5 I. “Make Me Feel Alive”: The Psychology of Music……………………………………………..5 A. “It’s Hard to Explain, We Feel It”: Music and the Body………………………………5 B. “Emotional Motion Sickness”: Emotional Attachment and Regulation……………….6 C. “I’m Now Becoming My Own Self-Fulfilled Prophecy”: Identity Formation………...9 D. “Dancing On My Own”: Music and Community…………………………………….12 II. “They’re Playing Our Song”: Spotify as a Medium………………………………………….14 A.