Authors : Dogra S .
Page Nos : 338-341
Description :
The use of music at sporting events is a practice that is thousands of years old, but has
recently had resurgence as a noted phenomenon. Some sports have specific traditions with respect to
pieces of music played at particular intervals. Others have made t
he presentation of music very specific to
the team
—
even to particular players. Music may be used to build the energy of the fans, and music may
also be introduced in ways that are less directly connected with the action in a sporting event. researcher
in t
he field of music in sport and exercise, has primarily explored the psychological, psychophysical,
psychophysiological, and ergogenic effects of music: The Psychological effects refer to how music
influences mood, affect, emotion, attitudes, cognition and
behaviour. Music is present in many sport and
exercise situations, but empirical investigations on the motives for listening to music in sports remain
scarce listening to music during pre
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event preparations, warm
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up, and training sessions; and the most
com
mon motives for listening to music were to increase pre
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event activation, positive effect, motivation,
performance levels and to experience flow. The athletes experienced positive affective states (e.g.,
happiness, alertness, confidence, relaxation) in rel
ation to music in sports, and also reported on their
beliefs about the causes of the musical emotion episodes in sports.
