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Why Music Moves Us

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  1. Jeanette Bicknell
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Tears of Odysseus

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 1-21

  3. History: Music Gives Voice to the Ineffable

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 23-44

  4. Tears, Chills and Broken Bones

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 45-60

  5. The Music Itself

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 61-76

  6. Explaining Strong Emotional Responses to Music I

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 77-88

  7. Explaining Strong Emotional Responses to Music II

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 89-115

  8. The Sublime, Revisited

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 117-137

  9. Conclusion: Values

    • Jeanette Bicknell
    Pages 139-149

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-165
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About this book

Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music.

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'Combining philosophy, psychology, and music history, Why Music Moves Us is a remarkable multidisciplinary achievement. Bicknell offers a fresh take on the emotional power of music by exploring a neglected but vital element of the Romantic aesthetic: the musical sublime'

- Theodore Gracyk, author of Rhythm and Noise and Listening to Popular Music

'For Bicknell, who fully understands music's ability to arouse and represent emotions, music is of moral benefit in educating them' - Times Literary Supplement

'...a more collaborative approach to understanding music...' British Journal of Asthetics

About the author

JEANETTE BICKNELL teaches philosophy in Toronto, Canada. She has written widely on aesthetics and philosophy of music.

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