Product Description

This new volume in the Series in Affective Science is the first book in over 40 years to tackle the complex and powerful relationship between music and emotion. The book brings together leading researchers in both areas to present the first integrative review of this powerful relationship. This is a book long overdue, and one that will fascinate psychologists, musicologists, music educators, and philosophers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #563663 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 504 pages

Review
One of the major merits of the book, which I think deserves high praise, is its multidisciplinarity, showing that the link between music and emotion is broad and can be viewed from many different and equally valid points of view. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol 11, No 2 This is a comprehensive and enlightening text that will appeal to many. The diversity in contributions and scope of treatment of the topic makes it an essential read for anyone interested in music and emotion. The Psychologist ... the editors commissioned an excellent selection of papers, which sit well together within one volume. As one would expect from the combined forces of Juslin, Sloboda and Oxford University Press, the standard of editing is excellent, chapters are thoroughly cross-referenced and the two indices (one for authors and one for subjects) are actually useful. Psychology of Music

About the Author
Patrik Juslin is a highly regarded music psychologist making a name for himself worldwide. John Sloboda is the leading authority on music psychology. His classic work The Musical Mind has been reprinted 15 times and been in print for 16 years

Customer Reviews

very integrative and all-encompassing
Pulling together famous researchers, etc Juslin and Sloboda do an amzing job of pulling together resources from various social sciences to help understand the interconnection between emotion and music. I haven't plowed through it fully yet but every day there's a new insight I learn or even a twist on how we understand the mind's analysis of music-even with all the background i have.
I surely suggest reading this if you want a real skin and bones understanding and not just fluffy narrative.
Happy Reading!