The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

by Kathleen Marie Higgins

Book Overview

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable music's uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226333280
• ISBN13: 9780226333281
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"