Written in appealingly direct and jargon-free language, this is a book that brings fresh new thinking to the field and which will continue to exert its influence for many years to come.”įBA, Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford Situating their account within writing on music stretching back to Plato and Aristotle, the authors make a compelling case for the enactive approach that they adopt and use that framework to address a host of fascinating questions ranging from the fundamentals of organism-environment relations to the nature of musical consciousness via Ghanaian drumming and improvisation-and concluding with important insights about musical praxis, ethics, and education. “This is a really exciting and important contribution to music psychology and music education.
An enactive approach to musicality, they argue, can reveal important aspects of human being and knowing that are often lost or obscured in the modern technologically driven world. Drawing on these insights, they show how dynamic processes of adaptive body-brain-environment interactivity drive musical cognition across a range of contexts, extending it beyond the personal (inner) domain of musical agents and out into the material and social worlds they inhabit and influence. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the development of musicality in infancy and childhood, music's emergence in human evolution, and the nature of musical emotions, empathy, and creativity.ĭeveloping their account, the authors link a diverse array of ideas from fields including neuroscience, theoretical biology, psychology, developmental studies, social cognition, and education. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.
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