Juslin, Patrik N. – Musical Emotions Explained

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Can music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Based on ground-breaking research, Musical Emotions Explained explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments. The book is accessibly written by one of the leading researchers in the field worldwide. CONTENTSPart I: Introduction1 Setting the Stage: Overture in C Major2 The Book’s Composition: Aim and Structure3 The Value of a Psychological Approach4 Music, Experience, and AffectPart II: Expression and Perception of Emotion5 What Is Meant by Emotional Expression?6 Empirical Studies: What Have We Learned?7 Music as Expression: Objections and Obstacles8 Breaking the Code: The Musical Features9 How Are Music and Emotion Links Studied?10 Viewing Music Through a Brunswikian Lens11 The Voice of Angels? Iconic Expression12 Further Layers: Intrinsic and Associative Expression13 Deviation From the Exact: The Role of the PerformerPart III: Arousal of Emotion14 Beyond Perception: When Music Moves Us15 Does Music Arouse Emotions? How Do We Know?16 The Prevalence of Emotional Reactions17 How Does Music Arouse Emotions?18 Jumping at Shadows: Brain Stem Reflex19 Get Into the Groove: Rhythmic Entrainment20 Mirroring the Expression: Contagion21 Ring My Bell: Evaluative Conditioning22 Blast From the Past: Episodic Memory23 Seeing in the Mind’s Eye: Visual Imagery24 What Comes Next? Musical Expectancy25 Predictions, Implications, ComplicationsPart IV: Aesthetic Judgment26 Aesthetics: The Hard Problem?27 Traditional Approaches to Aesthetics28 What’s Special? Adopting the Aesthetic Attitude29 Aesthetic Criteria: Meet the Usual Suspects!30 A Novel Approach Towards Aesthetic Judgment31 Aesthetics and Affect in Broader Perspective32 The Last Chorus: Putting It All Together33 Coda: Final OutlookAppendix: The Lens Model EquationJuslin, Patrik N. – Musical Emotions Explained