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Why Music Moves Us
Jeanette Bicknell
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Description for Why Music Moves Us
Hardback. Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music. Num Pages: 183 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPM; HPN; JMR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.
Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230209893
SKU
V9780230209893
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99-15
About Jeanette Bicknell
JEANETTE BICKNELL teaches philosophy in Toronto, Canada. She has written widely on aesthetics and philosophy of music.
Reviews for Why Music Moves Us
'Combining philosophy, psychology, and music history, Why Music Moves Us is a remarkable multidisciplinary achievement. Bicknell offers a fresh take on the emotional power of music by exploring a neglected but vital element of the Romantic aesthetic: the musical sublime' - Theodore Gracyk, author of Rhythm and Noise and Listening to Popular Music 'For Bicknell, ... Read more