The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Movement and Stasis
• 1. Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis
• 2. Rhythm and Movement
• 3. The Ontology of Rhythm
• 4. 'Feeling the Beat': Multimodal Perception and the Experience of Musical Movement
• 5. Dance Rhythm
• Part II. Emotion and Expression
• 6. The Life of Rhythm: Dewey, Relational Perception, and the 'Cumulative Effect'
• 7. Rhythm, Preceding its Abstraction
• 8. Mozart's 'Dissonance' and the Dialectic of Language and Thought in Classical Theories of Rhythm
• 9. Rhythm and Popular Music
• 10. Rhythms, Resemblance, and Musical Expressiveness
• Part III: Entrainment and the Social Dimension
• 11. Metric Entrainment and the Problem(s) of Perception
• 12. Entrainment and the Social Origins of Musical Rhythm
• 14. Temporal Processing and the Experience of Rhythm: A Neuro-psychological Approach
• Part IV. Time and Experience: Subjective and Objective Rhythm
• 15. Complexity and Passage: Experimenting with Poetic Rhythm
• 16. Encoded and Embodied Rhythm: An Unprioritized Ontology
• 17. Time, Duration, Rhythm: The Aesthetics of Temporality in Bachelard and Deliege
• 18. Husserl's Model of Time-Consciousness, and the Phenomenology of Rhythm
• 19. Pictorial Experience and the Perception of Rhythm
• 20. Soundless Rhythm
• Part V. Reading Rhythm
• 21. Hearing it Right: Rhythm and Reading
• 22. The Not-so-silent Reading: What Does it Mean to Say that we Appreciate Rhythm in Literature?
• 23. Leaving it Out: Rhythm and Short Form in the Modernist Poetic Tradition
• 24. Rhythm, Meter, and the Poetics of Abstraction