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This definitive reference resource takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the nexus between music and the social and behavioural sciences examines how music affects human beings and their interactions in and with the world. The interdisciplinary nature of the work provides a starting place for students to situate the status of music within the social sciences in fields such as anthropology, communications, psychology, linguistics, sociology, sports, political science, and economics as well as biology and the health sciences.