Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural differe

Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scien

Examines questions raised, in antiquity and now, by mythical narratives about humans transforming into non-human musical beings.

In Musical Resilience, Shalini Ayyagari shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvente

Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive. Music is generally considered as an ordered arrangement of sounds pleasing to the ear and noise as its opposite: