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Music and Emotion: Theory and Research (Series in Affective Science)

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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.

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This is a must-have for anyone interested in the subject of musical expression and emotional response to music. Plus this is a relevant model of what a collective book should be: the same issue is adressed again and again under differents scopes (philosophy, musicology, psychology, biology, sociology, and so on) by experts of each discipline including Davies, Sloboda, Meyer, Scherer, Cook... throwing different light on the same subject. It is very useful.

But this book is first meant to be used by researchers, scholars and students. I wouldn't recommand it to lay people or average music lovers, who might feel lost with the complexity of the issues adressed here.