Surely you've experienced it before: you're listening to a piece
of music and all of a sudden you find a lump in your throat, a tear
in your eye, or a chill down your spine.
Whether it's Beethoven's Choral Symphony or The Verve's
'Bittersweet Symphony', a bit of blues or a bit of baroque, music
has the power to move us. It's a language which we all speak. But
why does it have this effect on us? What is going on, emotionally,
physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional
responses to music? What, if anything, do such responses mean? Can
they tell us anything about ourselves?
Jeanette Bicknell uses research in philosophy, psychology,
neuroscience, and anthropology to address these questions,
ultimately showing us that the reason why some music tends to
arouse powerful experiences in listeners is inseparable from the
reason why any music matters at all. Musical experience is a social
one, and that is fundamental to its attractions and power over
us.
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