Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives

Consciousness Poses Major Challenges To Human Understanding. This Unique Book Considers Whether Music Might Afford Some Special Source Of Insight Into Consciousness, And How Issues Of Consciousness Might In Turn Shape Our Understanding Of Music. Music, Phenomenology, Time Consciousness : Meditations After Husserl / David Clarke -- Phenomenology And The 'hard Problem' Of Consciousness And Music / Eugene Montague -- Technicity, Consciousness, And Musical Objects / Michael Gallope -- Listening, Consciousness, And The Charm Of The Universal : What It Feels Like For A Lacanian / Ian Biddle -- Enactive Consciousness, Intertextuality, And Musical Free Improvisation : Deconstructing Mythologies And Finding Connections / Bennett Hogg -- The Music Of What Happens : Mind, Meditation, And Music As Movement / Ansuman Biswas -- 'in The Heard, Only The Heard...' : Music, Consciousness, And Buddhism / Bethany Lowe -- North Indian Classical Music And Its Links With Consciousness : The Case Of Dhrupad / David Clarke And Tara Kini -- From Formalism To Experience : A Jamesian Perspective On Music, Computing, And Consciousness / Meurig Beynon -- Music, Language, And The Kinds Of Consciousness / Lawrence M. Zbikowski -- Music Perception And Musical Consciousness / Eric Clarke -- Towards A Theory Of Proprioception As A Bodily Basis For Consciousness In Music / Alicia Peñalba Acitores -- Sound-action Awareness In Music / Rolf Inge Godøy -- Music, Consciousness, And The Brain : Music As Shared Experience Of An Embodied Present / Andy Mcguiness And Katie Overy -- Drugs, Altered States, And Musical Consciousness : Reframing Time And Space / Jörg Fachner -- Music And Ayahuasca / Benny Shanon -- Consciousness And Everyday Music Listening : Trancing, Dissociation, And Absorption / Ruth Herbert -- Practical Consciousness And Social Relation In Musecological Perspective / Tia Denora -- Public Consciousness, Political Conscience, And Memory In Latin American Neuva Canción / Richard Elliott -- The Psychic Disintegration Of A Demi-god : Conscious And Unconscious In Striggio And Monteverdi's L'orfeo / Jeffrey Kurtzman. Edited By David Clarke, Eric Clarke. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.