A contribution to the understanding of musicality based on a psychosocial research

Abstract

The present article has the aim of investigating and discussing the concept of musicality based on a research in the social psychology field that had as a study object the experience of music workshops with workers in the business context. The questions emerging from the participants testimony, as to whether or not they feel themselves as "musician", were put in dialogue with various authors views on the subject of art and music. We discuss the role, meaning and ways of music making by ordinary people, manifested in a ubiquitous and perennial way in society, in support to the idea that, beyond the world of the trained musicians or professional musical activity, musicality presents itself as an inseparable attribute of the human being.