ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Embodied Music Interaction captures a new paradigm in the study of music interaction, as a wave of recent research focuses on the role of the human body in musical experiences. This volume brings together a broad collection of work that explores all aspects of this new approach to understanding how we interact with music, addressing the issues that have roused the curiosities of scientists for ages: to understand the complex and multi-faceted way in which music manifests itself not just as sound but also as a variety of cultural styles, not just as experience but also as awareness of that experience.

With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international array of scholars, including both empirical and theoretical perspectives, the Companion explores an equally impressive array of topics, including:

    • Dynamical music interaction theories and concepts
    • Expressive gestural interaction
    • Social music interaction
    • Sociological and anthropological approaches
    • Empowering health and well-being
    • Modeling music interaction
    • Music-based interaction technologies and applications

This book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand human interaction with music from an embodied perspective.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

What Is Embodied Music Interaction?

part 1|55 pages

Dynamical Music Interaction Theories and Concepts

chapter 4|9 pages

Playing with the Beat

A Process-Oriented Approach to Studying Sensorimotor Synchronization in Early Childhood

chapter 5|9 pages

The Merging of Musician and Musical Instrument

Incorporation, Presence, and Levels of Embodiment

chapter 6|8 pages

Music Knowledge Construction

Enactive, Ecological, and Biosemiotic Claims

part 2|64 pages

Expressive Gestural Interaction

chapter 8|9 pages

Beyond Emotion

Multi-Sensory Responses to Musical Expression

chapter 11|8 pages

Agency in Embodied Music Interaction

part 3|74 pages

Social Music Interaction

chapter 14|8 pages

Group Flow

chapter 17|7 pages

Music Performance as Joint Action

chapter 18|10 pages

Do Jazz Improvisers Really Interact?

The Score Effect in Collective Jazz Improvisation

part 4|53 pages

Sociological and Anthropological Approaches

chapter 22|8 pages

Embodied Interaction with “Sonic Agents”

An Anthropological Perspective

chapter 24|9 pages

Combat-Dancing, Cultural Transmission, and Choreomusicology

The Globalization of Embodied Repertoires of Sound and Movement

chapter 25|9 pages

The Hiplife Zone

Cultural Transformation Processes in African Music Seen from the Angle of Embodied Music Interactions

part 5|62 pages

Empowering Health and Well-Being

chapter 28|8 pages

Coupling Music and Motion

From Special Education to Rehabilitation

chapter 29|9 pages

Embodied Music Listening

chapter 31|10 pages

Music in the Exercise and Sport Domain

Conceptual Approaches and Underlying Mechanisms

part 6|67 pages

Modeling Music Interaction

chapter 35|9 pages

Modeling Music Interaction

chapter 37|9 pages

Removing Obstacles to the Analysis of Movement in Musical Performance

Recurrence, Mixed Models, and Surrogates

chapter 40|10 pages

Interactions in Ensemble Music Performance

Empirical and Mathematical Accounts

part 7|59 pages

Music-Based Interaction Technologies and Applications

chapter 43|10 pages

Designing for the Subtle

A Systematic Approach Toward Expressivity in New Musical Interfaces

chapter 47|10 pages

Embodied Cognition and Digital Musical Instruments

Design and Performance