New book by Patrik Juslin scheduled for release

Patrik's new book, Musical Emotions Explained will be released by Oxford University Press on March 21, 2019.

Can music really arouse emotions? If so, what emotions, and how? Why do listeners respond with different emotions to the same piece of music? Are emotions to music different from other emotions? Why do we respond to fictional events in art as if they were real, even though we know they're not? What is it that makes a performance of music emotionally expressive?

Based on ground-breaking research, Musical Emotions Explained explores how music expresses and arouses emotions, and how it becomes an object of aesthetic judgments. Within the book, Juslin demonstrates how psychological mechanisms from our ancient past engage with meanings in music at multiple levels of the brain to evoke a broad variety of affective states - from startle responses to profound aesthetic emotions.

• The first single-author book in psychology to offer a coherent account of musical emotions

• Written by one of the leading researchers in the field

• Explains with both clarity and rigour the manifold ways in which music may engage our emotions

• Sufficiently engaging to attract lay readers, yet comprehensive and novel enough to attract specialists

• Richly illustrated with several music examples from everyday life