Malloch, Stephen - Communicative Musicality

'Communicative Musicality' explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. Groundbreaking studies have demonstrated that in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing, pulse, voice timbre, and gesture.This landmark book examines the nature of musical expression in human communication from infancy upwards.

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CONTENTS

1 Stephen Malloch & Colwyn Trevarthen: Musicality: communicating the vitality and interests of life
Part 1 - The Origins and Psychobiology of Musicality
2 Ellen Dissanayake: Root, leaf, blossom, or bole: concerning the origin and adaptive function of music
3 Per Aage Brandt: Music and how we became human: a view from cognitive semiotics - exploring imaginative hypotheses
4 Bjorn Merker: Ritual foundations of human uniqueness
5 Ian Cross & Iain Morley: The evolution of music: theories, definitions and the nature of the evidence
6 David N Lee & Benjamin Schogler: Tau in musical expression
7 Jaak Panksepp & Colwyn Trevarthen: The neuroscience of emotion in music
8 Robert Turner & Andreas A Ioannides: Brain, music and musicality: inferences from neuroimaging
Part 2 - Musicality in Infancy
9 Katerina Mazokopaki & Giannis Kugiumutzakis: Infant rhythms: expressions of musical companionship
10 Niki Powers & Colwyn Trevarthen: Voices of shared emotion and meaning: young infants and their mothers in Scotland and Japan
11 Patricia Eckerdal & Bjorn Merker: 'Music' and the 'action song' in infant development: an interpretation
12 Benjamin S Bradley: Early trios: patterns of sound and movement in the genesis of meaning between infants
13 Helen Marwick & Lynne Murray: The effects of maternal depression on the 'musicality' of infant-directed speech and conversational engagement
14 Maya Gratier & Gisele Apter-Danon: The improvised musicality of belonging: repetition and variation in mother-infant vocal interaction
Part 3 - Musicality and Healing
15 Nigel Osborne: Music for children in zones of conflict and post-conflict: a bio-psycho-social paradigm
16 Mercedes Pavlicevic & Gary Ansdell: Between communicative musicality and collaborative musicing: a perspective from community music therapy
17 Jacqueline Robarts: Supporting the development of mindfulness and meaning: clinical pathways in music therapy with a sexually abused child
18 Karen E Bond: The human nature of dance: towards a theory of aesthetic community
19 Tony Wigram & Cochavit Elefant: Therapeutic dialogues in music: nurturing musicality of communication in children with autistic spectrum disorder and Rett syndrome
Part 4 - Musicality of Learning in Childhood
20 Frederick Erickson: Musicality in talk and listening: a key element in classroom discourse as an environment for learning
21 Nicholas Bannan & Sheila Woodward: Spontaneity in the musicality and music learning of children
22 Charlotte Frohlich: Vitality in music and dance as basic existential experience: application in teaching music
23 Lori A Custodero: Intimacy and reciprocity in improvisatory musical performance: pedagogical lessons from adult artists and young children
Part 5 - Musicality in Performance
24 Ellen Dissanayake: Bodies swayed to music: the temporal arts as integral to ceremonial ritual
25 Nigel Osborne: Towards a chronobiology of music
26 Jane Davidson & Stephen Malloch: Musical communication: the body movements of performance
27 Helena Maria Rodrigues, Paulo Maria Rodrigues & Jorge Salgado Correia: Communicative musicality as creative participation: from early childhood to advanced performance