Hello Bert Buysse

I had a look. Although it's nothing related to my career, listening to, and playing music (not very well, but it lifts my spirit!) has always meant a lot to me. These are what I found when I looked the subject up:

Miranda, D. (2013). The role of music in adolescent development: much more than the same old song. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 18(1), 5-22.

This is the full text:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2011.650182

. . and this is the ResearchGate link:

Article The role of music in adolescent development: Much more than ...

Thomson, C. J., Reece, J. E., & Di Benedetto, M. (2014). The relationship between music-related mood regulation and psychopathology in young people. Musicae Scientiae, 18(2), 150-165.

Article The role of music in adolescent development: Much more than ...

These were the Google Scholar 'related articles' in relation to these; I don't know if there is anything of help in these:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=related:CI7H1BCWDx8J:scholar.google.com/&scioq=The+role+of+music+in+adolescent+development:+much+more+than+the+same+old+song&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=related:F3OC76wfjqAJ:scholar.google.com/&scioq=The+relationship+between+music-related+mood+regulation+and+psychopathology+in+young+people&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

Very best wishes,

Mary

Thank you very much!

I hope it would be interesting to find out how listening to music affect adolescent's Emotional Intelligence(just a suggestion).

Interesting suggestion, Lasni Buddhibhashika Jayasooriya

I found this, but it does not give any positive findings re Emotional Intelligence that I could see:

Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Swami, V., & Cermakova, B. (2012). Individual differences in music consumption are predicted by uses of music and age rather than emotional intelligence, neuroticism, extraversion or openness. Psychology of Music, 40(3), 285-300.

Article Individual differences in music consumption are predicted by...

I also found this; but it is not relating to the type of street music that you had in mind:

Waterhouse, L. (2006). Multiple intelligences, the Mozart effect, and emotional intelligence: A critical review. Educational Psychologist, 41(4), 207-225.

Article Multiple Intelligences, the Mozart Effect, and Emotional Int...

Best wishes,

Mary

Thank you Mary C R Wilson for interesting references.

I want to express my opinion, but this opinion will be very different from the usual view. In my understanding, the development of music has stopped and has long been in a great crisis. Well, see for yourself. When did the first conservatories appear? They began to appear in the second half of the 19th century, however, by the end of the 19th century, all classical music was practically composed, and musicians as performers performed from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day the repertoire of previous centuries from the time of Bach. It is believed that atonal music killed classical music and new compositions are miserable similarities to atonal music. For example, some well-known musicians as performers try to compose music, but their cospositions do not inspire and leave only miserable impression. Firstly, in their compositions the concept of “melody” is practically absent, it simply does not exist. Secondly, there is no improvisation. All that remains is a pile of sounds, devoid of any logic. Therefore, musicians perform mainly the old repertoire, which has passed the test of time and the performance of this repertoire guarantees success. One famous pianist, Nikolai Lugansky, once said the phrase "At my concerts in Europe, I see people in the hall who are mostly over 60 years old." This is a very sad fact. Now I want to state the main reason from my point of view. There is a huge difference between passive listening to music as a musical background and active listening to music as your own performance. This difference is huge. It is believed that children with disabilities, such as autists, do not perceive music as just passive listening, but they begin to understand music when their fingers come in contact with a musical instrument for playing music, such as a piano. At the same time, their behavior changes dramatically when their fingers extract music from the instrument. Modern education is trying to prepare more people as consumers than creators. This also applies to music. Now we see tens of millions of musicians as performers, and practically do not see composers, there are no new composers at all, or practically none. From my point of view, a good understanding of music can only come through the stage of their own performance of this music. The more people will play music, the better they will begin to understand this music. I just want to express my belief that even any lively performance of classical music can give a million times more emotions than just passive listening to this music, even in the performance of ingenious musicians. From this point of view, I foresee a situation where pianists like Nikolai Lugansky will perform classical music in empty halls.