Description
The presence of the phenomenological body is central to music in all of its varieties and contradictions. With the explosion of scholarly works on the body in virtually every field in the humanities, the social as well as the biomedical sciences, the question of how such a complex understanding of the body is related to music, with its own complexity, has been investigated within specific disciplinary perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body brings together scholars from across these fields, providing a platform for the discussion of the multidimensional interfaces of music and the body. The book is organized into six sections, each discussing a topic that defines the field: the moving and performing body; the musical brain and psyche; embodied mind, embodied rhythm; the disabled and sexual body; music as medicine; and the multimodal body. Connecting a wide array of diverse perspectives and presenting a survey of research and practice, the Handbook provides an introduction into the rich world of music and the body.
Table of Contents
1. Youn Kim and Sander Gilman: Contextualizing Music and the Body: An IntroductionPart I. The Moving and Performing Body 2. Musicalities and the Moving Body in Western Concert DanceByron Suber3. Music and Movement: Expectations, Aesthetics, and RepresentationJay Schulkin4. The Science of Voice and the BodyMarina Gilman5. The Body as Musical InstrumentAtau Tanaka and Marco DonnarummaPart II. The Musical Brain, Psyche, and Beyond 6. Music Changes the BrainPaul Lennard7. Music and PsychoanalysisSander Gilman8. Music Sociology Meets NeuroscienceMia NakamuraPart III. Embodied Mind, Embodied Rhythm 9. Sound-Motion Bonding in Body and MindRolf Inge Godøy10. Music, Bacchus, and FreedomHedy Law11. Entrainment and Embodiment in Musical PerformanceEugene Montague12. Rhythm and the Performer's BodyDaniel B. Stevens13. Embodied Rhythm and Musical Impact of Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century OperaShersten JohnsonIV. Music and the Disabled and Sexual Body 14. Music and the Embodiment of DisabilityMichael B. Bakan15. Musical Remediation of DisabilityBlake Howe16. Virtuosities of Deafness and Blindness: Musical Performance and the Prized BodyStefan Sunandan Honisch17. Embodied Representation in Staged OperaLinda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon18. Sexuality, Dis/Ability, and Sublimity in Grand OperaHanne Blank19. Is There Disabled Music? Music and the Body from Dame Evelyn Glennie's PerspectiveEvelyn Glennie, Sander Gilman, and Youn KimV. Music as Medicine 20. Music and the Body in the History of MedicineJames Kennaway21. Music in Body and ImaginationH. M. EvansVI. Music and The Multimodal Body22. Spatial Representations Common to Music and Bodily ExperienceXuejing Lu and William Forde Thompson23. Multimodal Music in Infancy and Early ChildhoodSandra E. Trehub24. Opera as Film: Multimodal Narrative and EmbodimentYayoi U. Everett25. Listening to the Musicking Body: A Cross-Disciplinary and Historical PerspectiveYoun Kim
