I'd like to study the behavior of head banging, as a form of music-induced movement - its motivations and consequences. However, I'm unable to locate robust work done in the field. Could someone please direct me to a few resources I could start with?
I think there are series of papers by Neil Todd that outline how vestibular responses to loud sounds are linked to mild pleasure - at least in those who do generally enjoy loud music, spelling out some of the plausible mechanisms involved autonomic nervous system.
see:
http://asadl.org/jasa/resource/1/jasman/v107/i1/p496_s1
particularly this:
http://asadl.org/jasa/resource/1/jasman/v110/i1/p380_s1
I discuss violence and music at the end of Chapter 8 of my book, "Music thought and feeling" (Oxford). People might head bang to non violent music, but I suspect that behaviour is intertwined with the presence of violent themes in music, so studying one would entail studying the other
I think music, like any other art linked to ecstatic experiences, can actually induce trance-like behaviors. There is even a genre called "trance"!
https://community.dur.ac.uk/anthropology.journal/vol16/iss2/papadimitropoulos.pdf
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