This book explores the various ways music affects people and how they create meaning from everyday musical experiences, from infancy through old age. These expe

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This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of

Kathleen Higgins argues that the arguments that Plato used to defend the ethical value of music are still applicable today. Music encourages ethically valuable

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