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Print Price: $180.00

Format:
Hardback
472 pp.
178 mm x 251 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190636234

Publication date:
September 2019

Imprint: OUP US


The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body

Edited by Youn Kim and Sander L. Gilman

Series : Oxford Handbooks

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.

Readership : Students in a wide range of fields (from anthropology to human medicine and from musicology to psychology) as well as specialists who need broader orientations to questions of music and the body. It might serve as a primary text for a course on music and the body or a supplementary text for many musicology courses for upper undergraduates or masters (e.g., courses on psychology of music, proseminar in music theory/musicology, etc.) Individual chapters might be excerpted for neuroscience courses; cultural study course, and disability study courses;

1. Youn Kim and Sander Gilman: Contextualizing Music and the Body: An Introduction
Part I. The Moving and Performing Body
2. Musicalities and the Moving Body in Western Concert Dance, Byron Suber
3. Music and Movement: Expectations, Aesthetics, and Representation, Jay Schulkin
4. The Science of Voice and the Body, Marina Gilman
5. The Body as Musical Instrument, Atau Tanaka and Marco Donnarumma
Part II. The Musical Brain, Psyche, and Beyond
6. Music Changes the Brain, Paul Lennard
7. Music and Psychoanalysis, Sander Gilman
8. Music Sociology Meets Neuroscience, Mia Nakamura
Part III. Embodied Mind, Embodied Rhythm
9. Sound-Motion Bonding in Body and Mind, Rolf Inge Godøy
10. Music, Bacchus, and Freedom, Hedy Law
11. Entrainment and Embodiment in Musical Performance, Eugene Montague
12. Rhythm and the Performer's Body, Daniel B. Stevens
13. Embodied Rhythm and Musical Impact of Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century Opera, Shersten Johnson
Part IV. Music and the Disabled and Sexual Body
14. Music and the Embodiment of Disability, Michael B. Bakan
15. Musical Remediation of Disability, Blake Howe
16. Virtuosities of Deafness and Blindness: Musical Performance and the Prized Body, Stefan Sunandan Honisch
17. Embodied Representation in Staged Opera, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
18. Sexuality, Dis/Ability, and Sublimity in Grand Opera, Hanne Blank
19. Is There Disabled Music? Music and the Body from Dame Evelyn Glennie's Perspective, Evelyn Glennie, Sander Gilman, and Youn Kim
Part V. Music as Medicine
20. Music and the Body in the History of Medicine, James Kennaway
21. Music in Body and Imagination, H. M. Evans
Part VI. Music and The Multimodal Body
22. Spatial Representations Common to Music and Bodily Experience, Xuejing Lu and William Forde Thompson
23. Multimodal Music in Infancy and Early Childhood, Sandra E. Trehub
24. Opera as Film: Multimodal Narrative and Embodiment, Yayoi U. Everett
25. Listening to the Musicking Body: A Cross-Disciplinary and Historical Perspective, Youn Kim

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Youn Kim is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include history of music theory, psychology of music, history of listening, and in particular, the interrelationship between music theory and the science of the mind. She has published articles on these subjects and is currently writing a book on body and force in music.

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over ninety books. His Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2018. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years he was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and recently as the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2017-18). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007), and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).

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Special Features

  • The first integrated interdisciplinary account of the debates about music and the body.
  • Brings together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences and biomedical sciences to provide a rich interdisciplinary approach to the topic.
  • Articles can serve as teaching guides in a wide range of subject matters from neuroscience to musicology.