Music and Joy : Yale University Press : 9780300264210 : 0300264216 : 05 Nov 2024 : From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is music "Running throughout [Chua's] book is a note of playfulness that makes for lively reading even when things turn deeply philosophical."-John Check, Wall Street Journal, "Holiday Gift Books, Music" In this revelatory book, Daniel K. L. Chua asks a simple question: Is music joy? For Chua, the answer is a resounding yes-music is a lesson in joy that teaches us how to live well. But to hear this ancient knowledge, he says, we have to attend to a music that is so much greater than our greatest hits. Drawing on extensive sources, from the Confucian classics to the writings of Saint Augustine, Chua's book is a globe?trotting, time?traveling, mind?boggling journey to rediscover the joy that is music. Using examples from Beethoven to the blues and from philosophy and theology to music theory, Chua updates the re