Awards
- Winner of Society for Ethnomusicology's Book of the Year Award.
Overview
A groundbreaking look into the connections between music, dance, emotion, and trance Claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Judith Becker
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.354kg
ISBN: 9780253216724
ISBN 10: 0253216729
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 01 July 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p>. .. [A] significant contribution to the literature on music, trance, ritual, and cognition, encompassing an impressive body of literature on the subject, and bridging disciplines in an entirely new way.... This book will be important andfascinating for musicologists, cognitive scientists, and others interested in therelationship between music, emotions, the mind, and the body. -- Journal of theAmerican Musicological Society
. .. [A] significant contribution to the literature on music, trance, ritual, and cognition, encompassing an impressive body of literature on the subject, and bridging disciplines in an entirely new way.... This book will be important and fascinating for musicologists, cognitive scientists, and others interested in the relationship between music, emotions, the mind, and the body. Journal of the American Musicological Society
. .. [A] significant contribution to the literature on music, trance, ritual, and cognition, encompassing an impressive body of literature on the subject, and bridging disciplines in an entirely new way.... This book will be important andfascinating for musicologists, cognitive scientists, and others interested in therelationship between music, emotions, the mind, and the body. -- Journal of theAmerican Musicological Society
[Examines] music, emotion, movement, and thought through the lens of trancing. International Journal of Listening
Author Information
Judith Becker is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, University of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the University Gamelan. Her field of expertise is the music of Southeast Asia, and she has conducted research in Burma, Indonesia, North India, and Sri Lanka. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
