Musical Bodies, Musical Minds : Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality

Andrea Schiavio

ISBN 10: 0262045222 / ISBN 13: 9780262045223

Published by MIT Press Ltd Aug 2022, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Musical Bodies, Musical Minds : Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Aug 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262045222
• ISBN 13: 9780262045223
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 149H x 25D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 528 grams

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Synopsis

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.

Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the development of musicality in infancy and childhood, music’s emergence in human evolution, and the nature of musical emotions, empathy, and creativity.
 
Developing their account, the authors link a diverse array of ideas from fields including neuroscience, theoretical biology, psychology, developmental studies, social cognition, and education. Drawing on these insights, they show how dynamic processes of adaptive body-brain-environment interactivity drive musical cognition across a range of contexts, extending it beyond the personal (inner) domain of musical agents and out into the material and social worlds they inhabit and influence. An enactive approach to musicality, they argue, can reveal important aspects of human being and knowing that are often lost or obscured in the modern technologically driven world.

About the Author

Dylan van der Schyff is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne and a musician who has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe. Andrea Schiavio is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Systematic Musicology of the University of Graz. David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University, coauthor of Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education, and an award-winning jazz composer and arranger.