Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing
"[S]uccessfully, yet distinctively, provides an important contribution to the growing literature on music, spirituality, and experience." —ETHNOMUSICOLOGY :Jrnl Soc Ethnom"... [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"There is such a wealth of stimulating ideas here.... I find thet [Becker's] ideas reinforce and validate one's intuitions about music and its power to move the listener." —American Record Guide