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:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consciousness poses major challenges to human understanding. This book considers whether music might afford some special source of insight into consciousness, and how issues of consciousness might in turn shape our understanding of music.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Conventions used in this book; Preface; 1 Music, phenomenology, time consciousness: meditations after Husserl; 2 Phenomenology and the 'hard problem' of consciousness and music; 3 Technicity, consciousness, and musical objects; 4 Listening, consciousness, and the charm of the universal: what it feels like for a Lacanian; 5 Enactive consciousness, intertextuality, and musical free improvisation: deconstructing mythologies and finding connections; 6 The music of what happens: mind, meditation, and music as movement

7 'In the heard, only the heard . . . ': music, consciousness, and Buddhism8 North Indian classical music and its links with consciousness: the case of dhrupad; 9 From formalism to experience: a Jamesian perspective on music, computing, and consciousness; 10 Music, language, and kinds of consciousness; 11 Music perception and musical consciousness; 12 Towards a theory of proprioception as a bodily basis for consciousness in music; 13 Sound-action awareness in music; 14 Music, consciousness, and the brain: music as shared experience of an embodied present

15 Drugs, altered states, and musical consciousness: reframing time and space16 Music and ayahuasca; 17 Consciousness and everyday music listening: trancing, dissociation, and absorption; 18 Practical consciousness and social relation in MusEcological perspective; 19 Public consciousness, political conscience, and memory in Latin American nueva canción; 20 The psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-19-162557-4

1-283-58196-5

9786613894410

OCLC:

775786255