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Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox

Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Music Theory Duke University Press

Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox

Journal of Music Theory , Volume 64 (1) – Apr 1, 2020

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Copyright © 2020 by Yale University
ISSN
0022-2909
eISSN
1941-7497
DOI
10.1215/00222909-8033457
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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

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Journal of Music TheoryDuke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2020

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