Mediation Technology, Marc Leman examines how these developments might be unified
into something that is simultaneously a theory of music cognition and a blueprint for the …

The discipline is in flux. Some work has been deemed,, new musicology", as if it is meant to
surpass or supplant an,, old musicology". The concept may be inadequate and misleading …

How do we talk about music? Inevitably, through metaphors and signs. This piece sounds
tragic, that one violent. These sounds make me think of death, of trees, or of childhood. And …

What do we mean by “meaning”? When we say that something has “meaning,” we are
claiming that our original something points to, or is attached to, or can be used to infer the …

Musics, Cultures and Meanings: Music as Communication Page 1 Empirical Musicology Review
Vol. 7, No. 1-2, 2012 95 Musics, Cultures and Meanings: Music as Communication IAN CROSS …

This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics,
philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans …

The conversations generated by the chapters in Music's Immanent Future grapple with some
of music's paradoxes: that music of the Western art canon is viewed as timeless and …

In this primarily conceptual article I offer some answers to the question: how does music
materialize identities? I will argue that music is instructive in relation to conceptualizing the …

We provide the outline of a semantics for music. We take music cognition to be continuous
with normal auditory cognition, and thus to deliver inferences about “virtual sources” of the …