{"id":101,"date":"2022-04-16T13:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2022-04-25T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:02:47","slug":"the-elevated-emotional-experience-of-higher-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/the-elevated-emotional-experience-of-higher-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elevated Emotional Experience of \u201cHigher Love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/files\/2022\/04\/edmdrop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDM music being performed by a DJ in front of a crowd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The technique of building a song to a drop in EDM music could be inspired by the usage of harmony and song structure in early disco music to bring about an emotional \u201cclimax,\u201d inspired by the identity of \u201cerotic\u201d freedom and and elevated promiscuity of the 1980s (Barkin &amp; Hamessley, 1999). This idea of freedom elevates this emotional experience even further when incorporating the gospel genre. For example, \u201cIt\u2019s Raining Men\u201d by the Weather Girls uses elongated vowels, bent pitches, and excitable \u201cwhooping\u201d sounds\u201d inspired by the gospel style to elevate the joyous experience of the listener (Barkin &amp; Hamessley, 1999). Thus, Kygo\u2019s EDM techniques of breakdowns, build-ups, and drops combined with Whitney\u2019s gospel-style vocals further elevates the listening experience of the song \u201cHigher Love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technique of building a song to a drop in EDM music could be inspired by the usage of harmony and song structure in early disco music to bring about an emotional \u201cclimax,\u201d inspired by the identity of \u201cerotic\u201d freedom and and elevated promiscuity of the 1980s (Barkin &amp; Hamessley, 1999). This idea of freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/the-elevated-emotional-experience-of-higher-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Elevated Emotional Experience of \u201cHigher Love\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5193,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[211748],"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}