What Musicking Affords - Musical Performance and the Post-Cognitivist Turn

This Element explores embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition, challenging computational approaches. It draws from paradigms like enactive cognition, cybernetic and systems-theoretical approaches, phenomenological perspectives, Gibson's affordances theory, and multi-instrumentalist practice to understand music performance.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The turn to embodiment; 3. The systems-theoretical turn (Cybernetics 101); 4. The phenomenological turn; 5. The turn to practice; Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Duby, Marc (University of South Africa ) Duby
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009249911
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0924991-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Theory of music & musicology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive studies, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Cybernetics & systems theory, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Musical Instruments, Cognitive Science, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Theory of music and musicology, Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles, Cybernetics and systems theory