Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface Harris M. Berger, Friedlind Riedel, and David VanderHamm Acknowledgments List of Contributors About the Companion Website 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?rtan 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
