Musical Bodies, Musical Minds Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Human Musicality

• Main Author: Schyff, Dylan van der (auth)
• Other Authors: Schiavio, Andrea (auth), Elliott, David J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Cognitive science; Music perception; cognitive musicology; 4E cognitive science; enactivism; phenomenology; musicality; perspectives on music cognition; antecedents to enactivism; language and music; embodied music cognition
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An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science...