Judith Becker brings together scientific & cultural approaches to the study of music & emotion, & music and trancing. She argues that those who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals.
A look into the connections between music, dance, emotion, and trance; which claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals. Judith Becker brings together scientific and cultural appro…
Judith Becker brings together scientific & cultural approaches to the study of music & emotion, & music and trancing. She argues that those who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals.
Annotation "A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis ... Becker urges the reader to view certain arcane cultural rituals as being in the mainstream of spiritual development and argues that the resulting trance-like states may relate to the basic fabric of emotions and conscio…