Music and consciousness : philosophical, psychological, and cultural perspectives / edited by David Clarke, Eric Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, David (David Ian)

Clarke, Eric F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads, or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human, most agree that consciousness represents a 'hard problem'.

The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely and multi-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions.

The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds, bodies, culture, and history. Incorporating several essays that also move outside Western philosophical traditions, Music and Consciousness also corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness, the volume presents a distinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music. Book jacket.

Contents:

Music, phenomenology, time consciousness: meditations afer Husserl / David Clarke

Phenomenology and the 'hard problem' of consciousness and music / Eugene Montague

Technicity, consciousness, and musical objects / Michael Gallope

Listening, consciousness, and the charm of the universal: what it feels like for a Lacanian / Ian Biddle

Enactive consciousness, intertextuality, and musical free improvisation: deconstructing mythologies and finding connections / Bennett Hogg

The music of what happens: mind, meditation, and music as movement / Ansuman Biswas

'In the heard...': music, consciousness, and Buddhism / Bethany Lowe

North Indian classical music and its links with consciousness: the case of dhrupad / David Clarke and Tara Kini

From formalism to experience: a Jamesian perspective on music, computing, and consciousness / Meurig Beynon

Music, language and kinds of consciousness / Lawrence M. Zbikowski

Music perception and musical consciousness / Eric Clarke

Towards a theory of proprioception as a bodily basis for consciousness in music / Alicia Penalba Acitores

Sound-action awareness in music / Rolf Inge Godoy

Music, consciousness, and the brain: music as shared experience of an embodied present / Andy McGuiness and Katie Overy

Drugs, altered states, and musical consciousness: reframing time and space / Jorg Fachner

Music and ayahuasca / Benny Shanon

Consciousness and everday music listening: trancing, dissociation, and absorption / Ruth Herbert

Practical consciousness and social relation in MusEcological perspective / Tia DeNora

Public consciousness, political conscience, and memory in Latin America nueva cancion / Richard Elliott

The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo / Jeffrey Kurtzman.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0199553793

9780199553792

OCLC:

713182635

Publisher Number:

99946266756