Music in Human Experience: Perspectives on a Musical Species
Music plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.
Jonathan L. Friedmann is Professor of Jewish Music History and Associate Dean of the Master of Jewish Studies Program at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, USA. He is the author and editor of over two dozen books, including Musical Aesthetics: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions (2018).
"Overall, these essays will be of value to music historians and students of the evolution of music. It provides a cross generational, long term focus of music’s development from pre-antiquity up to this century, without much focus on the very most contemporary, commodified and popularized sides of music in the present day."
Edwin Anderson Mwakibete, Utafiti 18
Simha Arom
Steven Brown
John Collins
Ellen Dissanayake
Jonathan L. Friedmann
Victor Grauer
Joseph Jordania
Robert Lopez-Hanshaw
John Morton
Michael Naylor
Bruno Nettl
Elizabeth Phillips
Piotr Podlipniak
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Nino Tsitsishvili
Agota Vitkay-Kucsera
Maja S. Vukadinović
Alejandra Wah
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