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Author Becker, Judith O

Title Deep listeners : music, emotion, and trancing / Judith Becker
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Rethinking "trance" -- Deep listeners -- Habitus of listening -- Trancing selves -- Being-in-the-world : culture and biology -- Magic through emotion : toward a theory of trance consciousness -- Postscript : trancing, deep listening, and human evolution
Summary Annotation "A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis ... Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate to the basic fabric of emotions and consciousness, which are our ancestral, animalian heritage. This is both a risky and courageous undertaking that challenges both cultural and neuroscientific studies."--Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal EmotionsIn 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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index
Notes English
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Subject Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music, Influence of.
Trance.
Emotions.
Human information processing.
Humanities.
Music.
Mental Processes
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Humanities
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Psychiatry and Psychology
Music
Emotions
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
humanities.
emotion.
24.44 psychology of music.
Emotions.
Music, Influence of.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Trance.
Musik
Trance
Muziekpsychologie.
Emoties.
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music Philosophy.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Music, Influence of.
Trance music -- History and criticism.
Emotions in music.
Emotions.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003021168
ISBN 0253343933
9780253343932
0253216729
9780253216724