{"product_id":"9780226333274","title":"The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Higgins’ love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended.”—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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 this book, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, musicology, linguistics, and anthropology, Higgins’s richly researched study showcases the ways music is used in rituals, education, work, and healing, and as a source of security and—perhaps most importantly—joy. By participating so integrally in such meaningful facets of society, Higgins argues, music situates itself as one of the most fundamental bridges between people, a truly cross-cultural form of communication that can create solidarity across political divides. Moving beyond the well-worn takes on music’s universality, \u003ci\u003eThe Music between Us\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new understanding of what it means to be musical and, in turn, human. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Those who, like Higgins, deeply love music, actually know something about it, have open minds and ears, and are willing to look beyond the confines of Western aesthetics…will find much to learn in \u003ci\u003eThe Music between Us\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof Aesthetics and Art Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084199248112,"sku":"9780226333274","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226333274_p0.jpg?v=1769916454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226333274","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}