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A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folklore studies, and allied disciplines to develop new perspectives on musical practices and auditory cultures.
With sustained theoretical meditations and evocative ethnography, the book's twenty-two chapters advance scholarship on topics at the heart of the study of music and culture today--from embodiment, atmosphere, and Indigenous ontologies, to music's capacity to reveal new possibilities of the person, the nature of virtuosity, issues in research methods, the role of memory, imagination, and states of consciousness in musical experience, and beyond. Thoroughly up-to-date, the handbook engages with both classical and contemporary phenomenology, as well as theoretical traditions that have drawn from it, such as affect theory or the German-language literature on cultural techniques. Together, these essays make major contributions to fundamental theory in the study of music and culture.
Contents
Preface
Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
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Section 1. Historical Perspectives and Disciplinary Directions
1. Phenomenological Approaches in the History of Ethnomusicology
Harris M. Berger, David VanderHamm, and Friedlind Riedel
2. Carl Stumpf and the Phenomenology of Musical Utterances
Julia Kursell
3. Aesthetic Experience, Social Interfaces, and the Phenomenology of Music
Roger W. H. Savage
4. The Expressive Culture of Sound Communication among Humans and Other Beings: A Phenomenological and Ecological Approach
Jeff Todd Titon
Section 2. Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness
5. Listening Beyond Sound and Life: Reflections on Imagined Music
J. Martin Daughtry
6. Young People's Lived Experience of Music in Everyday Life: Psychological and Phenomenological Perspectives
Ruth Herbert
Section 3. Transformations and Possibilities of the Person
7. Sexed Bodies / (Im)Possible Bodies / Polyphonic Bodies
Stephen Amico
8. Phenomenology and Habitus in Music Listening
Andrew McGuiness
9. Playing and Listening: Phenomenological Hermeneutics and Improvisation
Charles Sharp
Section 4. Intercorporeality, Perception, and Movement
10. Virtuosity, Obviously: Ravi Shankar, Historical Phenomenology, and the Valuation of Skill
David VanderHamm
11. The Sound of Movement: Hearing Kathak Dance
Monica Dalidowicz
12. Scrape, Brush, Flick: The Phenomenology of Sound
Katharine Young
Section 5. Ontologies
13. Not Just One, Not Just Now: Relational Voices in Time
Matthew Rahaim
14. Staging Karma: Cultural Techniques of Transformation in Burmese Musical Drama
Friedlind Riedel
15. Intuitive Sensory Presentiation and Recollection: A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Deer Dance
Helena Simonett
Section 6. Rasa, Affect, Atmosphere
16. Towards a Phenomenology of Rasa: Theorizing from Ras in Sikh Sabad K=irtan Practice
Inderjit N. Kaur
17. The Aesthetics of Proximity and the Ethics of Empathy
Deborah Kapchan
18. Phenomenological Displacements: Voice, Atmospheric Disturbance, and Mediatized Grief
Daniel Fisher
Section 7. Ethics of Performance, Ethics of Research
19. Jazz Etiquette: Between Aesthetics and Ethics
Alessandro Duranti, Jason Throop, and Matthew McCoy
20. Facing the Musical Other: Alfred Schutz, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Ethnography of Musical Experience
Esther Clinton and Jeremy Wallach
21. Artificial Intelligence and Phenomenological Ethnography
Ritwik Banerji
22. Ways of the Mind: Toward a Phenomenological Ethnomusicology of Autistic Musical Experience
Dotan Nitzberg and Michael B. Bakan
Index
