Clarke, David - Music and Consciousness

The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely and multi-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions.

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CONTENTS

1 David Clarke: Music, phenomenology, time consciousness: meditations after Husserl.
2 Eugene Montague: Phenomenology and the hard problems of consciousness and music.
3 Michael Gallope: Technicity, consciousness, and musical objects.
4 Ian Biddle: Listening, consciousness, and the charm of the universal: what it feels like for a Lacanian.
5 Bennett Hogg: Enactive consciousness, intertextuality, and musical free improvisation: deconstructing mythologies and finding connections.
6 Ansuman Biswas: The music of what happens: meditation and music as movement.
7 Bethany Lowe: 'In the heard, only the heard...': music, consciousness, and Buddhism.
8 David Clarke and Tara Kini: North Indian classical music and its links with consciousness: the case of Dhrupad.
9 Meurig Beynon: From formalism to experience: a Jamesian perspective on music, computing, and consciousness.
10 Lawrence Zbikowski: Music, language, and kinds of consciousness.
11 Eric Clarke: Music perception and musical consciousness.
12 Alicia Penalba Acitores: Towards a theory of proprioception as a bodily basis for consciousness in music.
13 Rolf Inge Godoy: Sound-action awareness in music
14 Andy McGuiness and Katie Overy: Music, consciousness, and the brain: music as shared experience of and embodied present
15 Jorg Fachner: Drugs, altered states, and musical consciousness: reframing time and space
16 Benny Shanon: Music and ayahuasca
17 Ruth Herbert: Consciousness and everyday music listening: trancing, dissociaiton, and absorption
18 Tia DeNora: Practical Consciousness and Social relation in MusEcological perspective
19 Richard Elliott: Public consciousness, political conscience, and memory in Latin American nueva cancion
20 Jeffery Kurtzman: The Psychic disintegration of a demi-god: conscious and unconscious in Striggio and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo