The philosophy of rhythm : aesthetics, music, poetics / edited by Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cheyne, Peter, editor.

Hamilton, Andy, 1957- editor.

Paddison, Max, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical meter and rhythm.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Musical perception.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xxi, 415 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience-particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies-has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete conceptual domains and technical vocabularies of musicology and prosody.0With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary theorists, and ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm opens up wider-and plural-perspectives, examining formal affinities between the historically interconnected fields of music, dance, and poetry, while addressing key concepts such as embodiment, movement, pulse, and performance. Volume editors Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison bring together a range of key questions: What is the distinction between rhythm and pulse? What is the relationship between everyday embodied experience, and the specific experience of music, dance, and poetry? Can aesthetics offer an understanding of rhythm that helps inform our responses to visual and other arts, as well as music, dance, and poetry? And, what is the relation between psychological conceptions of entrainment, and the humane concept of rhythm and meter? Overall, The Philosophy of Rhythm appeals across disciplinary boundaries, providing a unique overview of a neglected aspect of aesthetic experience. -- Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Introduction : Philosophy of rhythm / Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison

Part 1 : Movement and stasis. Dialogue on rhythm : entrainment and the dynamic thesis / Andy Hamilton, David Macarthur, Roger Squires, Matthew Tugby, and Rachael Wiseman (compiled and edited by Andy Hamilton) ; Rhythm and movement / Matthew Nudds ; The ontology of rhythm / Peter Simons ; "Feeling the beat" : multimodal perception and the experience of musical movement / Jenny Judge ; Dance rhythm / Aili Bresnahan

Part II : Emotion and expression. The life of rhythm : Dewey, relation perception, and the "cumulative effect" / Garry L. Hagberg ; Rhythm, preceding its abstraction / Deniz Peters ; Mozart's "dissonance" and the dialectic of language and thought in classical theories of rhythm / Michael Spitzer ; Rhythm and popular music / Alison Stone ; Rhythms, resemblance, and musical expressiveness / Ted Gracyk

Part III : Entrainment and the social dimension. Metric entrainment and the problem(s) of perception / Justin London ; Entrainment and the social origin of musical rhythm / Martin Clayton ; How many kinds of rhythm are there? / Michael Tenzer ; Temporal processing and the experience of rhythm : a neuro-psychological approach / Udo Will

Part IV : Time and experience : subjective and objective rhythm. Complexity and passage : experimenting with poetic rhythm / Christopher Hasty ; Encoded and embodied rhythm : an unprioritized ontology / Peter Cheyne ; Time, rhythm, and subjectivity : the aesthetics of duration / Max Paddison ; Husserl's model of time-consciousness, and the phenomenology of rhythm / Salomé Jacob ; Pictorial experience and the perception of rhythm / Jason Gaiger ; Soundless rhythm / Victor Durà-Vilà

Part V : Reading rhythm. Rhythm, meter and poetics of abstraction / Jason David Hall ; The not-so-silent reading : what does it mean to say that we appreciate rhythm in literature? / Rebecca Wallbank ; Leaving it out : rhythm and short form in the modernist poetic tradition / Will Montgomery ; Hearing it right : rhythm and reading / John Holliday.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Philosophy of rhythm.

ISBN:

9780199347780

9780199347773

0199347778

0199347786

OCLC:

1084620054

Publisher Number:

99983178356