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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. This title investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents.

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"The Music between Us approaches the question of music through a vast amount of recent and fascinating work that implicates, if not demonstrates, music's central place in human nature: thought, feeling, synesthesia, language, and community. It eschews claims of metaphysical essence or universals, instead speaking to deep and normative aspects of the musical in human life and behavior. Assembling an extraordinary amount of data and results from cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience, ethnomusicology, and sociology, Kathleen Marie Higgins's book is worth reading purely for its compendium effect." (Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226333281, 978-0226333281
      ISBN10: 0226333280
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      Theory of music and musicology

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      Book Synopsis
      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. This title investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents.

      Trade Review
      "The Music between Us approaches the question of music through a vast amount of recent and fascinating work that implicates, if not demonstrates, music's central place in human nature: thought, feeling, synesthesia, language, and community. It eschews claims of metaphysical essence or universals, instead speaking to deep and normative aspects of the musical in human life and behavior. Assembling an extraordinary amount of data and results from cognitive psychology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience, ethnomusicology, and sociology, Kathleen Marie Higgins's book is worth reading purely for its compendium effect." (Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan)"

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