Deep Listeners

InDeep Listeners, Judith Becker brings together scientific and cultural approaches to the study of music and emotion, and music and trancing. Becker claims that persons who experience deep emotions when listening to music are akin to those who trance within the context of religious rituals. Using new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and biology,Deep Listenersoutlines an emotion-based theory of trance using examples from Southeast Asian and American musics. A companion CD includes excerpts from several of the musical genres under discussion, and a 16-page colour insert presents vivid documentation of the global experience of "deep listening."

Judith Becker is Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music, University of Michigan, where she directs the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the University Gamelan. Her field of expertise is the music of Southeast Asia, and she has conducted research in Burma, Indonesia, North India, and Sri Lanka. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

List of Illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(3)

Problems with Traditional Paradigms of Music Cognition

4

(3)

Languaging, Musicking, and Trancing

7

(1)

Multiple Senses of Embodiment

8

(2)

Chapter-by-Chapter Summary

10

(3)

A Historical Interlude: Trance in Europe and the United States

13

(137)

Rethinking ``Trance''

25

(20)

Trancing and Culture

25

(2)

Trancing and Language

27

(2)

Universals of Trance Experience

29

(1)

Believability

30

(4)

Trancing and the Body

34

(4)

Defining Trance

38

(7)

Deep Listeners

45

(24)

Part One: Contemporary Deep Listeners

Primary and Secondary Emotions

49

(2)

Musical Emotions

51

(1)

High Arousal

52

(2)

Deep Listeners and Transcendental Experience

54

(6)

Part Two: Ancient Deep Listeners, Rasa Theory

Deep Listening, Trance, and the Srngara Rasa

60

(7)

Conclusion: Controlling the Uncontrollable

67

(2)

Habitus of Listening

69

(18)

Emotion as a Cultural Construct

71

(2)

Person and Emotion in the Habitus of Listening

73

(1)

Being a Griot

74

(1)

The Habitus of Listening to the Sitar, Tambura, and Tabla

75

(2)

Music and Ecstasy: The Sufis of the Nizamuddin Shrine, New Delhi

77

(5)

Music and Rage: Balinese Bebuten Trancing

82

(5)

Trancing Selves

87

(21)

The Development of a Western ``Self''

89

(4)

Possession Trance in Colonial Virginia

93

(4)

Possession Trance among Contemporary Pentecostals

97

(3)

Possession Trance in Sulawesi, Indonesia

100

(5)

Conclusion

105

(3)

Being-in-the-World: Culture and Biology

108

(23)

Part One: Rethinking Perception

Edelman and the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection

112

(7)

Part Two: Biological Phenomenology

Structural Coupling

119

(3)

Supra-individual Biological Processes

122

(5)

Rhythmic Entrainment

127

(2)

Conclusion

129

(2)

Magic through Emotion: Toward a Theory of Trance Consciousness

131

(19)

Introduction

131

(3)

Damasio's Theory of Two-Leveled Consciousness: ``Core Consciousness'' and ``Extended Consciousness''

134

(7)

Core Consciousness

134

(5)

Extended Consciousness: The Autobiographical Self

139

(2)

Music and Core Consciousness: ``Becoming the Music''

141

(3)

Music and Extended Consciousness in Trancing: The Loss of the Autobiographical Self

144

(3)

Trancing and Pain

147

(3)

Postscript: Trancing, Deep Listening, and Human Evolution

150

(7)

Notes

157

(10)

Bibliography

167

(20)

Index

187

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