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The music between us : is music a universal language? / Kathleen Marie Higgins.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higgins, Kathleen Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Music and language.
- Intercultural communication in the performing arts.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience. Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, musicology, linguistics, and anthropology, Higgin
- Contents:
- Other people's music
- Musical animals
- What's involved in sounding human?
- Cross-cultural understanding
- The music of language
- Musical synesthesia
- A song in your heart
- Comfort and joy
- Beyond ethnocentrism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613530011
- 9781280126154
- 1280126159
- 9780226333274
- 0226333272
- OCLC:
- 781635119
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