Author

Publication

2004-06-01 - Indiana University Press

Language

English

Word Count

48,500 words, Guess

Page Count

194 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003021168
  • LibraryThing2558198
  • Goodreads653980

Classifications

  • LCCML3838.B433 2004

Description

In Deep Listeners, Judith Becker brings together scientific and cultural approaches to the study of music and emotion, and music and trancing. Becker claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals. Using new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and biology, Deep Listeners outlines an emotion-based theory of trance using examples from Southeast Asian and American musics. A companion CD includes excerpts from several of the musical genres under discussion, and a 16-page color insert presents vivid documentation of the global experience of "deep listening." - Back cover.

Description

Judith Becker brings together scientific & cultural approaches to the study of music & emotion, & music and trancing. She argues that those who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals.

First Sentence

The interpenetration of music with trancing is ancient and universal.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Deep ListenersPaperbackIndiana University Press2004-06-01

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