The last three decades of work in cognitive science have challenged the idea that thinking occurs entirely in the head, claiming instead that cognition is embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive. The claims of 4E cognition challenge the dominance of computational approaches to cognition, and music scholars have explored Gibson's notion of affordances to propose a new understanding of musical performance as primarily grounded in action. This Element draws from paradigms such as enactive cognition, cybernetic and systems-theoretical approaches, phenomenological perspectives on practice, Gibson's theory of affordances, and aspects of the author's own practice as a multi-instrumentalist to consider cases of how the interface between musician and instrument influences performance.
| ISBN: | 9781009517157 |
| Publication date: | 6th February 2025 |
| Author: | Marc Duby |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 75 pages |
| Series: | Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice |
| Genres: |
Theory of music and musicology Phenomenology and Existentialism Cybernetics and systems theory Cognitive studies Cognition and cognitive psychology Music: styles and genres Musical instruments |
The last three decades of work in cognitive science have challenged the idea that thinking occurs entirely in the head, claiming instead that cognition is embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive. The claims of 4E cognition challenge the dominance of computational approaches to cognition, and music scholars have explored Gibson's notion of affordances to propose a new understanding of musical performance as primarily grounded in action. This Element draws from paradigms such as enactive cognition, cybernetic and systems-theoretical approaches, phenomenological perspectives on practice, Gibson's theory of affordances, and aspects of the author's own practice as a multi-instrumentalist to consider cases of how the interface between musician and instrument influences performance.
What Musicking Affords features in the following genres: Theory of music and musicology, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Cybernetics and systems theory, Cognitive studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Music: styles and genres, Musical instruments
What Musicking Affords is available in Hardback, Paperback
What Musicking Affords was written by Marc Duby and published by Cambridge University Press
What Musicking Affords has 75 pages
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