Driving with music : cognitive-behavioural implications

"This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. It presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contributing factor to human error and traffic violation."--Provided by publisher. Read more... Abstract: Explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. This title presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents. Read more...

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. It presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention, but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contributing factor to human error and traffic violations.

Driving With Music begins by outlining the automobile, its relationship to society, and the juxtaposition of music with the automobile as a complete package. It then highlights concepts from the fields of music perception and cognition, and, within this framework, looks at the functional use of background music in our everyday lives. Driver music behaviours - both adaptive and maladaptive - are explored, with the focus on contradictions and ill-effects of in-car music listening. To conclude, implications, applications and countermeasures are suggested.

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. It presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention, but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contributing factor to human error and traffic violations. Driving With Music begins by outlining the automobile, its relationship to society, and the juxtaposition of music with the automobile as a complete package. It then highlights concepts from the fields of music perception and cognition, and, within this framework, looks at the functional use of background music in our everyday lives. Driver music behaviours - both adaptive and maladaptive - are explored, with the focus on contradictions and ill-effects of in-car music listening. To conclude, implications, applications and countermeasures are suggested. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Automobility: Car Culture and Popular Music; 2 Background Music in Everyday Life: The Listener and Effects of Music on Listeners; 3 In-Car Audio Culture: The Benefits of Driving with Music; 4 Contraindications to In-Car Music Listening; 5 Ill-Effects of In-Car Music Listening; 6 Implications, Countermeasures, and Applications: Music Alternatives for Increased Driver Safety; 7 Postscript; Appendix A Road Movies; Appendix B Car Movies; Appendix C Car Games for Video and PC Appendix D The Ultimate List of Car SongsAppendix E 100 Greatest Car Songs; Appendix F Driving Tracks; References; Index