In "Deep Listeners", Judith Becker brings together scientific and cultural approaches to the study of music and emotion, and music and trancing. Becker claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals. Using new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and biology, "Deep Listeners" outlines an emotion-based theory of trance using examples from Southeast Asian and American musics. A companion CD includes excerpts from several of the musical genres under discussion, and a 16-page colour insert presents vivid documentation of the global experience of "deep listening."
- ISBN10 0253343933
- ISBN13 9780253343932
- Publish Date 10 June 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English