The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? - Softcover

Higgins, Kathleen Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022614285X ISBN 13: 9780226142852

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2014

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"Higgins has written a wonderfully comprehensive book about nothing less than to what extent music is a universal phenomenon.... The author contends that though there appears to be dramatic variation across cultures, music universally reflects humans' common ways of behaving-for instance, in connection with longing and mourning-and serves to physically instruct one on how to comport oneself in society.... A welcome contribution to cross-cultural (and cross-species) philosophy of music.... Highly recommended." (Choice)"

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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, Higgins’s richly researched study showcases the ways music is used in rituals, education, work, healing, and as a source of security and—perhaps most importantly—joy. By participating so integrally in such meaningful facets of society, Higgins argues, music situates itself as one of the most fundamental bridges between people, a truly cross-cultural form of communication that can create solidarity across political divides. Moving beyond the well-worn takes on music’s universality, The Music between Us provides a new understanding of what it means to be musical and, in turn, human.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022614285X
• ISBN 13: 9780226142852
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290