The science-music borderlands : reckoning with the past and imagining the future / edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth, editor.

Loui, Psyche, editor.

Loughridge, Deirdre, editor.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways. Researchers using scientific methods and approaches to advance our understanding of music and musicality have not yet grappled with some of the perils that humanistic fields concentrating on music have long articulated. In this edited volume, established and emerging researchers -- neuroscientists and cognitive scientists, musicians, historical musicologists, and ethnomusicologists -- build bridges between humanistic and scientific approaches to music studies, particularly music psychology. Deftly edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge, The Science-Music Borderlands embodies how sustained interaction among disciplines can lead to a richer understanding of musical life. The essays in this volume provide the scientific study of music with its first major reckoning, exploring the intellectual history of the field and its central debates, while charting a path forward. The Science-Music Borderlands is essential reading for people studying music from any disciplinary background. It will also interest those working at the intersection of music and science, such as music teachers, performers, composers, and music therapists.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: Beyond Nature vs. Nurture

1. Human Musicality and Gene-Culture Coevolution: Ten Concepts to Guide Productive Exploration

2. Musical Meaning in Transspecies Perspective: A Semiotic Model

3. Cross-Species Research in Biomusicality: Methods, Pitfalls, and Prospects

4. Humane Treatment, Sound Experiments

Interlude

5. Of Sound Minds and Tuning Forks: Neuroscience's Vibratory Histories

II: Beyond Music as a Window into the Mind

6. Music, Mind, Body, and World

7. Rhythmic Entrainment and Embodied Cognition

8. The Musical Mind: Perspectives from Developmental Science

9. The Science of Music Is about Relations

10. Toward Neurotechnology for Musical Creativity

III: Beyond Reductionism

11. Combating Reductionism in Music Neuroscience with Ecologically Valid Paradigms: What Can (and Cannot) Be Gained?

12. Hidden Repertoires in the Brain Accessed by Music in Aging and Neurodegeneration

13. Composing at the Border of Experimental Music and Music Experiment

Interludes

14. Music Theory and Experimental Science

15. Conversation with Pamela Z

IV: Beyond Musicians and Nonmusicians

16. "The Musical Mind Is the Normal Mind": Remaking Musicianship for Eugenics

17. The Musician-Nonmusician Conundrum and Developmental Music Research

18. Building Sustainable Global Collaborative Networks: Recommendations from Music Studies and the Social Sciences

19. Conversations with Steven Feld

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37304-1

0-262-37303-3

OCLC:

1376195552