Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology

Contents

• Introduction
• The human body and musical instruments
• Conceptual dimension of metaphoric construction
• Force and agency
• "Body and force" and "body versus force"
• The discursive space and disciplinary identity of music psychology
• Metaphors as shorthand for music psychology
• Roadmap
• Historicizing music psychology
• Chapter 1. The Musicking Body-machine
• Music, machine, and the body
• The emergence of the "human motor" model
• Rhythm: "an inevitable corollary from the persistence of forces"
• Psychological studies in the era of rhythm
• Musical rhythm and labor
• Rhythm in the "body culture"
• The "irrational," continuous rhythm
• Rhythm and the piano-playing body
• Concluding remarks
• Chapter 2. "A Force of Nature": Tracing Voice
• Animal, machine, and voice
• Speech theory of music
• Voice, the body machine, and the issue of agency
• Voice as both object and subject
• Voice of the "primitive" soul
• Recorded Voice
• "Dragging movement"
• "How the voice looks"
• Concluding remarks
• Chapter 3. Motion, Force, and "Rhythm Form"
• The "'co-working of motion' with one's own will"
• Piano theories
• Motion in piano playing
• Force and the will
• The will, physiology, and piano-playing
• Force and posture
• Action-perception coupling at the turn of the twentieth century
• "Rhythmic massing"
• Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4. Minding Gaps and Musical Energy
• The ball analogy
• The human motor capable of locomotion
• Capturing the musicking body
• Music as streams of energy
• Gliding between tones
• The agency of motion
• Revisiting the ball analogy
• Music as motion across disciplines and times
• Concluding remarks
• Chapter 5. Force at a Distance
• Force acting at a distance
• In the words of amateur pianists and psychologists
• Force affecting the audience
• The metaphor of vibratory waves in psychology
• Force at a distance and The power of sound
• "Brain waves" in communication
• Inhibition and waves in music psychology
• The vibratory energy of music
• "Sympathetic oscillation"
• Concluding remarks
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index