The music between us : is music a universal language? / / Kathleen Marie Higgins
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| Autore: |
Higgins Kathleen Marie
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| Titolo: |
The music between us : is music a universal language? / / Kathleen Marie Higgins
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 781/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Communication in music |
| Music - Social aspects | |
| Music and language | |
| Intercultural communication in the performing arts | |
| Music - Philosophy and aesthetics | |
| Classificazione: | LR 56820 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The music between us |
| ISBN: | 9786613530011 |
| 9781280126154 | |
| 1280126159 | |
| 9780226333274 | |
| 0226333272 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911046583303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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