“Using new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and biology, ethnomusicologist Judith Becker outlines an emotion-based theory of trance using examples from Southeast Asian and American musics. A companion CD provides musical samples, and a 16-page color insert presents vivid documentation of the global experience of "deep listening."”

“. . . [A] significant contribution to the literature on music, trance, ritual, and cognition, encompassing an impressive body of literature on the subject, and bridging disciplines in an entirely new way. . . . This book will be important and fascinating for musicologists,cognitive scientists, and others interested in the relationship between music, emotions, the mind, and the body.”
 — Journal of the American Musicological Society

“[Examines] music, emotion, movement, and thought through the lens of trancing.18.1 2004”
 — International Journal of Listening

“There is such a wealth of stimulating ideas here. . . . I find thet [Becker's] ideas reinforce and validate one's intuitions about music and its power to move the listener. ”
 — American Record Guide

“[S]uccessfully, yet distinctively, provides an important contribution to the growing literature on music, spirituality, and experience. 57.2 Summer 2013”
 — ETHNOMUSICOLOGY :Jrnl Soc Ethnom