Music and embodied cognition : listening, moving, feeling, and thinking / Arnie Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Arnie, 1963- author.

Series:

Musical meaning and interpretation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Emotions and cognition.

Emotions in music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to non-Western music, Cox's work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Mimetic comprehension

Mimetic comprehension of music

Metaphor and related means of reasoning

Pitch height

Temporal motion and musical motion

Perspectives on musical motion

Music and the external senses

Musical affect

Applications

Review and implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253021601

025302160X

OCLC:

926742957

Publisher Number:

99969122213