Strong Experiences with Music: Music is much more than just music
- Author: Gabrielsson, Alf
- Translator: Bradbury, Roy
An elegant and careful investigation, this book is unquestionably a momentous contribution to the mission of the author, and our field —
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Contents
- 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 Feelings / Emotion
- 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