Cultural Psychology of Musical Experience

Sven Hroar Klempe, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

• Series Editor's Preface: The Voice of Music in Cultural Psychology.Introduction.Part I. Cultural Psychology of Music.Chapter 1. Psychological Aesthetics, Cultural Psychology, and Music; Christian G. Allesch.Chapter 2. The Sound of Music; Tania Zittoun.Chapter 3. Religion, Culture, and Music: A Psychological Exploration; Jacob A. Belzen.Part II. Musical Sensations.Chapter 4. The Unattainable Vibration: Julia Kristeva, the Opera, and Psychic Life in a Mexican City; Karen Rodríguez.Chapter 5. The Musicalization of Reality: Reality, Rap, and Rap Reality on Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet; Anne Danielsen.Chapter 6. Music, Language, and Ambiguity; Sven Hroar Klempe.Part III. Musical Experiences.Chapter 7. I'll Take You There: Tuning Into Emotions With Mobile Music Technology; Arild Bergh.Chapter 8. Everything Except Dance Band Music: Cultural Omnivorousness, Norms, and the Formation of Taboos; Petter Dyndahl.Chapter 9. Timescales in Musical Experience; Rolf Inge Godøy.Part IV. Musical Transformations.Chapter 10. Music, Medicine, and Psychiatry in Late 18th and First Half 19th Century Vienna; Andrea Korenjak.Chapter 11. Music Listening and the Experience of Surrender: An Exploration of Imagery Experiences Evoked by Selected Classical Music From the Western Tradition; Lars Ole Bonde and Katarina Mårtenson Blom.Chapter 12. Musical Agency: A Perspective From Community Music Therapy; Viggo Krüger and Brynjulf Stige.Chapter 13. Music, a Bedrock in the River of Life: Exploring Health Assets in Rhythm Sound Movement and Community Musicking; Lise Jaastad.Part V. Musical Fundamentals.Chapter 14. Silence and Sense-Making: The Musicality of Affect Restored to Wissenschaft in Everyday Life; Olga V. Lehmann.Chapter 15. Music by Numbers; Martin Knakkergaard.Chapter 16. The Language Fallacy in Psychology; Sven Hroar Klempe.About the Contributors.