
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds
Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
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Musical Bodies, Musical Minds
Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality
About this book
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the development of musicality in infancy and childhood, music's emergence in human evolution, and the nature of musical emotions, empathy, and creativity.
Developing their account, the authors link a diverse array of ideas from fields including neuroscience, theoretical biology, psychology, developmental studies, social cognition, and education. Drawing on these insights, they show how dynamic processes of adaptive body-brain-environment interactivity drive musical cognition across a range of contexts, extending it beyond the personal (inner) domain of musical agents and out into the material and social worlds they inhabit and influence. An enactive approach to musicality, they argue, can reveal important aspects of human being and knowing that are often lost or obscured in the modern technologically driven world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Getting Situated
- 2. Basic Principles of Enactive Cognitive Science
- 3. Music and Consciousness
- 4. Phenomenology and the Musical Body
- 5. Music and Emotion
- 6. The Empathic Connection
- 7. The Evolution of the Musical Mind
- 8. Teleomusicality
- 9. Creative Musical Bodies
- 10. Praxis
- References
- Index