Embodied Musicology : ways that embodiment shapes performance and reception / edited by Arnie Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Arnie, 1963- editor.

Series:

Applied music studies ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicology--History and criticism.

Musicology.

Applied musicology.

Ethnomusicology.

Movement, Aesthetics of.

ethnomusicology.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xv, 377 pages : illustrations (chiefly black and white), music ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepolis, 2025.

Summary:

"For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine, music has involved composites of sounds and the bodily actions that produce them. To whatever extent this proposition might be accurate, it suggests that music has been, and to varying extents remains, a genre of theatre. But the possibility of separating sounds from their visible, corporeal sources -- as in listening to singing that is performed in a dark cave or performed behind a rood screen, or in listening to LP recordings in one's den -- became a distinct way of experiencing, understanding, and teaching music, especially in various forms of higher education. By contrast, the current interest in embodiment, branching off from gender studies, invites us to appreciate the roles of corporeality in shaping musical experience, which this collection of seventeen essays explores in the genres of opera, theatre, contemporary classical post-tonal music, the music of Jimi Hendrix, and the role of album cover art in shaping listening experiences. Beyond repertoire are essays on innate, acquired, and culturally imposed bodily limitations; eurhythmics; human-computer integration exercises; the cognitive semiotics of musical motion; and the corporeal bases of aesthetic evaluation of musical experiences."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception / Arnie Cox

Part One: Education

Feeling, Understanding, Communicating: Bodily Movement as a Catalyst of Musical Knowledge / Anna Maria Freschi

"Io la musica son": Studying Embodied Knowledge in the Context of Human-Computer Integration / Anne Marleen Olthof, Somaya Ben Allouch, Jouke Velinden

Part Two: Innate, Acquired, and Culturally Imposed Bodily Limitations

Embodied Knowledges, Critical Thresholds: Tracing the Roots of Ableism in Music and Medical Professionalism / Ryan Weber

Embodiment and Occupational Pain in Musicians: The Role of Our Perspective / Vinicius de Mello Jord̂o

Eduard Hanslick's Anxiety about the Body / Sanna K. Iitti

Part Three: Opera and Theatre

Callas on the Catwalk / Jane Sylvester

Embodying Rameau's Les Indes Galantes through Contemporary Artistic Direction and Postmodern Camp / Danielle L. Herrington

The Voice of Power: Simulating Disembodiment with Mrs. Meurig Morris / Gabrielle Ferrari

Part Four: The Roles of Bodies in Western Post-Tonal and Contemporary Art Music

Body, Prosthesis, and musique mixte: The Case of Chaya Czernowin's Hidden (2014) / Xuezi Xu, Sio Pan Leong

Listening to Sound-Based Music: A Trajectory between Embodied Cognition and Virtual Affordances / Riccardo D. Wanke

Apprehending musique concr̈te instrumentale and Other Contemporary avant-garde Music through Embodiment and Embodied Cognition: A Case Study of Julien Malaussena's 8 minutes after boiling / Hubert Ho

Spaces Surrounding Music, Spaces Seeping into Music / Lin Korobkova

Composing Gestures / Litha Efthymiou

Part Five: Two Cases from Popular Music

Monterey, Woodstock, Maui: Bodily Gesture in Jimi Hendrix Media as Countercultural Communal Representation / Victor Arul

Epit̀phios and To tragho̮dhi tou nekro̮ adelfo̮: Embodiment and Iconography in Album Covers / Maria Athanasiou

Part Six: Musical Motion and Emotion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9782503621913

2503621910

OCLC:

1591557073