Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture

by Harris M. Berger

How we find and make meaning through music and performance

Why does music move us? How do the immediate situation and larger social contexts influence the meanings that people find in stories, rituals, or films? How do people engage with the images and sounds of a performance to make them come alive in sensuous, lived experience? Exploring these questions, Stance presents a major new theory of emotion, style, and meaning for the study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819568783
• ISBN13: 9780819568786
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher