Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-music-theory/article-pdf/64/1/123/812118/0640123.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Arnie Cox Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking Indiana University Press, 2016: 296 pp. ($50.00 cloth, $30.00 paper) Mariusz Kozak If you ever wondered why it feels like music makes you move, or what it means to move along with it, or even whether music itself can move, Arnie Cox has a provocative answer for you: it’s an illusion! As he argues in Music and Embod- ied Cognition, it is an illusion based on how committed you feel to the sense that music is an intangible, ephemeral product of the physical labor of per- formers. To be sure, it is a very powerful illusion, prevalent in both scholarly and public discourse, but Cox claims that it simply results from our basic cognitive capacities to conceptualize our experience on the basis of our phys- ical engagement with our environment. In the book he sets out to explore the nature of these capacities (part 1, “Theoretical Background”), how they underlie some of the most common ways of talking about music (part 2, “Spa- tial Conceptions”), and their implications for music theory, analysis, and pedagogy (part 3, “Beyond
Journal of Music Theory – Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.