Deep Listeners
Subtitle: Music, Emotion, and Trancing
Edition: Pap/Com edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780253216724
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; States of consciousness; Theory of music & musicology; Music; Music/Songbooks; Emotions; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Ethnomusicology; History and criticism; Music, Influence of; Psychological aspects; Trance; Trance music
First sentence: The interpenetration of music with trancing is ancient and universal.
Description: Judith Becker brings together scientific & cultural approaches to the study of music & emotion, & music and trancing. She argues that those who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A historical interlude : trance in Europe and the United States; title: Rethinking "trance"; title: Deep listeners; title: Habitus of listening; title: Trancing selves; title: Being-in-the-world : culture and biology; title: Magic through emotion : toward a theory of trance consciousness; title: Postscript : Trancing, deep listening, and human evolution