Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia was published in 2014 (Sage Publishers, Ed. William Forde Thompson). It contains over 400 entries on a wide range of perspectives and topics such as musical memory, music and identity, humor in music, political music, musical treatments for Parkinson's disease, music therapy, the evolution of music, violence in music, pitch perception, musical disorders, and hundreds of other topics.
The encyclopedia was produced to encourage scholars to develop an inclusive and comprehensive understanding of music and its role in human life. The goal of the project was to stimulate interactions between the many disparate yet equally valid perspectives on one of the most pleasurable, pervasive, and fascinating of human activities. The volume focuses on scholarship arising from the social and behavioral sciences, complementing existing treatments of music theory and ethnomusicology.