Survey form: General.

Dear Respondent: We are BBA students of North South University doing a survey for the partial fulfillment of ENG 105 that involves your perception on music and the effect it has on you. It will take only a few minutes of your time. Your response would of great help in accomplishing the study. We greatly appreciate your cooperation. Background information: Age range: 15-20 ( ) 21-25 ( ) 26-30 ( ) 31-35 ( ) 36 and above ( ) Gender: ______ Occupation: __________________ For the following questions, PLEASE tick () your answer according to the degree of your agreement, unless advised otherwise. [1 = highly disagree; 2 = moderately disagree; 3 = neutral; 4 = moderately agree; 5 = highly agree]

1. A song can make one happy when you are gloomy. 2. A song can bring tears to ones eye when it is about a tragic event, personal or collective. 3. Can music help people overcome depression 4. Can music help people overcome fear and arise to face injustice, despotic rulers, etc. 5. Do you agree that some music helps, especially youngsters, to be socially more responsive
and confident? 6. Do you think that Concert for Bangladesh by George Harrison in 1971 or LiveAid by Geldof in 1985 to aid starving sub-Saharan Africans really helped those cause? 7. Benefit concerts pioneered by Harrison and Geldof are taken more as fun events by people than any serious social undertakings. Do you agree? 8. Is activism by musicians like Bono of U2 in the field of disease, hunger and poverty and dramatic reduction in child mortality rate are closely related if not directly. Do you agree? 9. Music makes learning basic things like counting, etc much more easier for children. 10. Music, especially slow music helps release stress. 11. Music distracts pain, both physical and psychological. 12. While in many religions music is a part of worship and has a central place in a faithfuls life, its position in Islam is somewhat ambiguous, but encouragement of melodious reciting of

the Holy Quran (Qirat), devotional songs (Hamd, Naat) shows it is not inimical to it. Do you agree? 13. Students should be taught music as a subject at schools, due to its proven leaning and development benefits. 14. Do you listen to music regularly?

[1 = very infrequent; 2 = moderately in frequent; 3 = neutral; 4 = moderately frequent; 5 = very frequent] 15. What kind of genre do you prefer? ____________ 16. Songs aired by Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra were a source of great inspiration and
encouragement to the people during the war of Liberation. Have you heard any of those songs? If yes, how would you express your feelings? Has lost its relevance now It still has historical importance Some songs are still inspiring It is still inspiring It gives me a sense of being there, spiritually None of the above.