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Music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. The author 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.

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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)"

The Music between Us

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 8 May 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226142852
      978-0226142852
      ISBN-10 022614285X
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      Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. The author 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.

      Trade Review
      "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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