Heidegger and Music
- Editor: Rentmeester, Casey
- Editor: Warren, Jeff R.
Heidegger and Music
- Editor: Rentmeester, Casey
- Editor: Warren, Jeff R.
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Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about music—directly, at least. This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, aims to utilize Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice. Heidegger’s thought is applied to a wide range of musical spheres, including improvisation, classical music, electronic music, African music, ancient Chinese music, jazz, rock n’ roll, composition, and musical performance. The volume also features a wide range of philosophical insights on the essence of music, music’s place in society, and the promise of music’s ability to open up new ways of understanding the world with the onset of the technological and digital musical age. Heidegger and Music breaks new philosophical ground by showcasing creative vignettes that not only push Heidegger’s concepts in new directions, but also get us to question the meaning of music in various contexts.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Music, Being, Thinking
- Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren
- PART I: MUSIC AND BEING-HUMAN
- 1 Rocking Heidegger: Musical Experience between Technology and Ontology
- Frederik Pio
- 2 Heidegger on the Slopes and Musical Mountain Biking Multimedia
- Jeff R. Warren and John Reid-Hresko
- 3 Distracted Dasein?
- Anthony Gritten
- 4 Rilke and the “Tone of Death”: Music and Word in Heidegger
- Babette Babich
- PART II: MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD
- 5 Grand Style, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Elaborations of a Concept
- Erik Wallrup
- 6 Heidegger, Iki, and Musical Resistance to Gestell
- J. P. E. Harper-Scott
- 7 The “Silent Music” in Ancient Chinese Thought and Heidegger’s Sound of Stillness
- Qinghua Zhu
- 8 Heidegger’s Musik-Sprache or Silence and Bells in the Music of Arvo Pärt
- Peter Trawny and Agamenon de Morais
- 9 We Live Therefore We Are: African Musical Aesthetics Challenge Heidegger’s Forgetfulness
- Eve Ruddock
- PART III: MUSICAL CREATION AND PERFORMANCE
- 10 Improvising the Round Dance of Being: Reading Heidegger from a Musical Perspective
- Sam McAuliffe and Jeff Malpas
- 11 Meditative Thinking in Jazz and the Challenge of the Technical
- Trevor Thwaites
- 12 Musical Performance as Poetic Thinking
- Goetz Richter
- 13 Being-with in Music
- Justin Christensen and Janeen Loehr
- PART IV: THE POWER OF MUSIC
- 14 Somewhere Between Plato and Pinker: A Heideggerian Ontology of Music
- Casey Rentmeester
- 15 Touched by Music: Affective Expression as Measure-Taking
- Roger W. H. Savage
- 16 Remembering Air in Schilingi’s Generative Music: Heideggerian Reflections on Argo and Terra
- Jill Drouillard
- 17 The Working of Aural Being in Electronic Music
- Gerry Stahl
- Index
- About the Contributors
