About Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell was an American writer and the husband of dancer Jean Erdman. He taught literature at Sarah Lawrence College and specialized in comparative mythology and religion, exploring many aspects of the human condition. His best‑known book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), presents the idea of a common archetypal hero story found in world mythologies, which he called the monomyth.
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![“It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d0/joseph-campbell-300_art_it-music-has-an-awakening-function-life_829251.png)
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