Music as atmosphere : collective feelings and affective sounds / edited by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riedel, Friedlind, editor.

Torvinen, Juha, 1975- editor.

Series:

Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Affect (Psychology).

Emotions in music.

Sound--Psychological aspects.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 309 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2019.

Biography/History:

Friedlind Riedel is a doctoral researcher at the Kompetenzzentrum Medienanthropologie at Bauhaus-Universitt̃ Weimar. Her interests include music and performing arts in Myanmar, cultural histories of listening and philosophies of music. Juha Torvinen is Senior Lecturer at the Musicology department of the University of Helsinki. He holds the title of Docent of musicology in Universities of Helsinki and Turku. Torvinen's research interests include philosophy of music, ecomusicology and contemporary Finnish popular and art music.

Summary:

"Music as Atmosphere - Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds is the first collection of essays on music, sound, and atmosphere. The volume assembles an impressively cross-disciplinary panoply of scholars from music studies, sound studies, philosophy, and media studies, all of whom investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings, that is, as atmospheres. The contributors explore atmosphereological approaches to musical traditions and practices, aural histories and memory, music's relationship to the body, social collectives, and nature. They probe conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions of atmosphere and affect but then also extend the spatial and relational focus towards fundamentally temporal questions of performance, process, timbre, resonance, and personhood. In doing so they touch on the capacity of atmospheric relations to imbue a situation with an ambient feeling and to modulate social collectives but also underscore auditory experience as an acoustemology for atmosphere. In addition to original research, the volume features a first translation of an important text by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz, and a debate on affect and atmosphere between the philosophers Jan Slaby and Brian Massumi. This wide-ranging collection provides a strong theoretical framework and vibrant case-studies. It also proposes some intriguing new approaches. It constitutes a rich resource for scholars and students of music, sound, aesthetics, media, anthropology, and contemporary philosophy"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Musical meaning in between: ineffability, atmosphere and asubjectivity in musical experience / Tere Vadén and Juha Torvinen

Intensity, atmospheres and music / Hermann Schmitz

Timbre, taste and epistemic tasks: a cross-cultural perspective on atmosphere and vagueness / Ruard Absaroka

Atmosphere and Northern music: ecomusicological-phenomenological analysis of Kalevi Aho's Eight Seasons / Juha Torvinen

The "right" kind of hal: feeling and foregrounding atmospheric identity in an Algerian music ritual / Tamara Turner

Sonic atmospheres in an American jail / Andrew McGraw

The substance of the situation: an anthropology of sensibility / Holger Schulze

Bodies in motion: music, dance and atmospheres in Palauan ruk / Birgit Abels

Acoustemologies of rebetiko love songs / Dafni Tragaki

The tune of the magic flute: on atmospheres and history / Erik Wallrup

Between things and souls: sacred atmospheres and immersive listening in late eighteenth-century sentimentalism / Anne Holzmüller

Transformations in mediations of lived sonic experience: a sensobiographic approach / Milla Tiainen, Inkeri Aula and Helmi Jäviluoma

A pedagogy of the event: an introduction / Christoph Carsten

Affect and atmosphere: two sides of the same coin? / Friedlind Riedel

Atmospheres: Schmitz, Massumi and beyond / Jan Slaby

Dim, massive and important: atmosphere in process / Brian Massumi

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed July 17, 2020).

ISBN:

9780429631627

0429631626

9780429633119

0429633114

9780815358718

0815358717

OCLC:

1126390771