Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing

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A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis.... Becker urges thereader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream ofspiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate tothe basic fabric of emotions and consciousness, which are our ancestral, animalianheritage. This is both a risky and courageous undertaking that challenges bothcultural and neuroscientific studies." -- Jaak Panksepp, author ofAffective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and AnimalEmotions In Deep Listeners, Judith Becker brings togetherscientific and cultural approaches to the study of music and emotion, and music andtrancing. Becker claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening tomusic are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals. Usingnew discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and biology, Deep Listeners outlinesan emotion-based theory of trance using examples from Southeast Asian and Americanmusics. A companion CD includes excerpts from several of the musical genres underdiscussion, and a 16-page color insert presents vivid documentation of the globalexperience of "deep listening.