Strong Experiences with Music

Strong Experiences in Music is a ground-breaking new book, developed from a long-running study into the effects of music. It draws on over two decades of research, and almost 1,000 participants, who describe, in their own words, their own unique and personal experiences of music.

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1. Introduction; 2. How the investigation was carried out; 3. General points about the accounts; 4. Experiences during childhood; 5. Experiences during teenage years; 6. When music takes over; 7. Merging with the music; 8. Feeling light, floating, leaving one's body; 9. Inner music; 10. Inner images; 11. Inner images; 12. Music and existence; 13. Music and transcendence; 14. Music and religious experiences; 15. New insights, new possibilities; 16. Confirmation through music; 17. Music as therapy; 18. When performing music oneself; 19. Singing in a choir; 20. Music in love - happy and unhappy; 21. Music in connection with illness and death; 22. Music at funerals; 23. Music in Nature; 24. Music from and in other cultures; 25. Music at concerts: Classical music; 26. Music at concerts: Jazz; 27. Music at concerts: Pop and rock; 28. Metaphors and similes; 29. Survey of all reactions; 30. Music in SEM; 31. What in the music elicited the reactions?; 32. Causes, consequences and importance; 33. Overview, comparisons, questions, outlooks; Postscript to the Swedish edition; Appendix A: A descriptive system for Strong Experiences with Music; Appendix B: An example of analysis of an account

(Oxford)