{"product_id":"the-music-between-us-9780226333281","title":"The Music between Us","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399999758679,"sku":"9780226333281","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226333281.jpg?v=1730469399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-music-between-us-9780226333281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}