A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology This book forms a basis and
a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists,
anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of
the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging
a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and
musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields
might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group
of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social
science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in
uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which
investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical
transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural
psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the
basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to
include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the
ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who
want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and
psychology.
