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A phenomenology of musical absorption / Simon Høffding.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3853 .H62 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Høffding, Simon, author.
Series:
New directions in philosophy and cognitive science
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music--Performance--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Music--Performance--Psychological aspects.
Music--Performance.
Physical Description:
xxii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Summary:
"This book presents a detailed analysis of what it means to be absorbed in playing music. Based on interviews with one of the world's leading classical ensembles, 'The Danish String Quartet' (DSQ), it debunks the myth that experts cannot reflect while performing, but also shows that intense absorption is not something that can be achieved through will, intention, prediction or planning - it remains something individuals have to be receptive to. Based in the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty as well as of Dan Zahavi and Shaun Gallagher, it lays out the conditions and essential structures of musical absorption. Employing the lived experience of the DSQ members, it also engages and challenges core ideas in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, enactivism, expertise studies, musical psychology, flow theory, aesthetics, dream and sleep studies, psychopathology and social ontology, and proposes a method that integrates phenomenology and cognitive science"--Back cover.
Contents:
How should we study musical absorption? The phenomenological interview
from ragdoll to battle commander: the experiences of musical absorption
A topography of musical absorption
Expertise, mind wandering, and amnesia
Artistic and aesthetic experience
Flow
Dreaming and sleeping
Schizophrenia and ipseity disturbances
Performative passivity
The hive mind: playing together.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Høffding, Simon. Phenomenology of musical absorption.
ISBN:
3030006581
9783030006587
OCLC:
1048968387
Publisher Number:
99980386305

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