Comments on: Music and metaphysics, unmasked http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16308 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:00:48 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16308 (as for example: "Role: Ban joy") (as for example: “Role: Ban joy”)

]]> by: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16306 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:58:12 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16306 Roger, I jumped to Amazon via your link but at 26 dollars + s&t (one copy left! hurry!) I hesitated, especially after reading Leroy Banjo's review (a name that cries out for anagram processing!). Maybe I can read your copy when you are done. Roger, I jumped to Amazon via your link but at 26 dollars + s&t (one copy left! hurry!) I hesitated, especially after reading Leroy Banjo’s review (a name that cries out for anagram processing!). Maybe I can read your copy when you are done.

]]> by: Daniel Wolf http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16298 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:23:42 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/03/30/music-and-metaphysics-unmasked/#comment-16298 Roger -- You might be interested in reading Gilbert Rouget's _Music and Trance_ which is rather convincing in its argument that while music is often instrumentalized in the induction of trance or possession and that music is useful to the socialization of such states of consciousness, there is no material relationship between a particular sound or music and a trance state. It's a nice bit of affirmation that our responses to music are something other -- and deeper -- than a simple behaviouralist mechanism. Roger –

You might be interested in reading Gilbert Rouget’s _Music and Trance_ which is rather convincing in its argument that while music is often instrumentalized in the induction of trance or possession and that music is useful to the socialization of such states of consciousness, there is no material relationship between a particular sound or music and a trance state. It’s a nice bit of affirmation that our responses to music are something other — and deeper — than a simple behaviouralist mechanism.

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