What does nostalgia mean?
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. [1]
Nostalgia is associated with a wistful yearning for the past, its personalities, and events, especially the "good old days" or a "warm childhood". [2]
Hearing an old song can bring back memories for a person. A song heard once at a specific moment and then not heard again until a far later date will give the listener a sense of nostalgia for the date remembered and events which occurred then. [3]
References:
Nostalgia is associated with a wistful yearning for the past, its personalities, and events, especially the "good old days" or a "warm childhood". [2]
Hearing an old song can bring back memories for a person. A song heard once at a specific moment and then not heard again until a far later date will give the listener a sense of nostalgia for the date remembered and events which occurred then. [3]
References:
- Boym, Svetlana (2002). The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books. pp. xiii–xiv. ISBN 0-465-00708-2.
- Sedikides, Constantine; Wildschut, Tim; Arndt, Jamie; Routledge, Clay (October 2008). "Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future" (PDF). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17 (5): 304–307. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00595.x
- Hyman, Ira (2011). Music-Evoked Nostalgia, Why do certain songs send us back? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-mishaps/201105/music-evoked-nostalgia.
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