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This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, utilizes Heidegger's philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Music, Being, Thinking
Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. WarrenPART I: MUSIC AND BEING-HUMAN1Rocking Heidegger: Musical Experience between Technology and Ontology
Frederik Pio2Heidegger on the Slopes and Musical Mountain Biking Multimedia
Jeff R. Warren and John Reid-Hresko3Distracted Dasein?
Anthony Gritten4Rilke and the "Tone of Death": Music and Word in Heidegger
Babette BabichPART II: MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD5Grand Style, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Elaborations of a Concept
Erik Wallrup6Heidegger,
Iki, and Musical Resistance to
GestellJ. P. E. Harper-Scott7The "Silent Music" in Ancient Chinese Thought and Heidegger's Sound of Stillness
Qinghua Zhu8Heidegger's
Musik-Sprache or Silence and Bells in the Music of Arvo Pärt
Peter Trawny and Agamenon de Morais9We Live Therefore We Are: African Musical Aesthetics Challenge Heidegger's Forgetfulness
Eve RuddockPART III: MUSICAL CREATION AND PERFORMANCE10Improvising the Round Dance of Being: Reading Heidegger from a Musical Perspective
Sam McAuliffe and Jeff Malpas11Meditative Thinking in Jazz and the Challenge of the Technical
Trevor Thwaites12Musical Performance as Poetic Thinking
Goetz Richter13Being-with in Music
Justin Christensen and Janeen LoehrPART IV: THE POWER OF MUSIC14Somewhere Between Plato and Pinker: A Heideggerian Ontology of Music
Casey Rentmeester15Touched by Music: Affective Expression as Measure-Taking
Roger W. H. Savage16Remembering Air in Schilingi's Generative Music: Heideggerian Reflections on
Argo and
TerraJill Drouillard17The Working of Aural Being in Electronic Music
Gerry StahlIndex
About the Contributors
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Edited by Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren
Summary
This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, utilizes Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice.
