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By Kathleen Marie Higgins

From our first social bonding as babies to the funeral rites that mark our passing, track performs an incredible function in our lives, bringing us in the direction of each other. In The tune among Us, thinker Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this function, studying the good points of human belief that allow music’s uncanny skill to impress, regardless of its myriad types throughout continents and all through centuries, the experience of a shared human experience.

                Drawing on disciplines similar to philosophy, psychology, musicology, linguistics, and anthropology, Higgins’s richly researched research showcases the methods tune is utilized in rituals, schooling, paintings, therapeutic, and as a resource of safety and—perhaps such a lot importantly—joy. via engaging so integrally in such significant features of society, Higgins argues, song situates itself as the most basic bridges among humans, a very cross-cultural type of communique which may create unity throughout political divides. relocating past the well-worn takes on music’s universality, The tune among Us provides a brand new realizing of what it potential to be musical and, in flip, human. 

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