"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 Emotions
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.""
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