Full Description
How does the immediate experience of musical sound relate to processes of meaning construction and discursive mediation?
This question lies at the heart of the studies presented in Experience and Meaning in Music Performance, a unique multi-authored work that both draws on and contributes to current debates in a wide range of disciplines, including ethnomusicology, musicology, psychology, and cognitive science. Addressing a wide range of musical practices from Indian raga and Afro-Brazilian Congado rituals to jazz, rock, and Canadian aboriginal fiddling, the coherence of this study is underpinned by its three main themes: experience, meaning, and performance. Central to all of the studies are moments of performance: those junctures when sound and meaning are actually produced. Experience-what people do, and what they feel, while engaging in music-is equally important. And considered alongside these is meaning: what people put into a performance, what they (and others) get out of it, and, more broadly, how discourses shape performances and experiences of music. In tracing trajectories from moments of musical execution, this volume a novel and productive view of how cultural practice relates to the experience and meaning of musical performance.
A model of interdisciplinary study, and including access to an array of audio-visual materials available on an extensive companion website, Experience and Meaning in Music Performance is essential reading for scholars and students of ethnomusicology and music psychology.
Contents
Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; About the companion web site ; Chapter 1. Introduction (Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck and Laura Leante) ; Chapter 2. Entrainment, ethnography and musical interaction (Martin Clayton) ; Chapter 3. Social co-regulation and communication in North Indian duo performances (Nikki Moran) ; Chapter 4. Groove: temporality, awareness and the feeling of entrainment in jazz performance (Mark Doffman) ; Chapter 5. Performing the Rosary: meanings of time in Afro-Brazilian Congado music (Glaura Lucas) ; Chapter 6. Performance and shame (Andy McGuiness) ; Chapter 7. Rhythm and role recruitment in Manitoban aboriginal vocal and instrumental music (Byron Dueck) ; Chapter 8. Imagery, gesture and listeners' construction of meaning in North Indian classical music (Laura Leante) ; Chapter 9. Embodiment and movement in musical performance (Martin Clayton and Laura Leante) ; References
