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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046583303321

Autore

Higgins Kathleen Marie

Titolo

The music between us : is music a universal language? / / Kathleen Marie Higgins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2012

ISBN

9786613530011

9781280126154

1280126159

9780226333274

0226333272

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Classificazione

LR 56820

Disciplina

781/.1

Soggetti

Communication in music

Music - Social aspects

Music and language

Intercultural communication in the performing arts

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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