The central role of the body in producing music is hardly debatable. Likewise, the body has
always played at least an implicit role in music theory, but has only been raised as a factor in …

Over the past decade or two the rise of the so-called New Musicology—including the work of
such critics as Fred Maus, Susan McClary, and Anthony Newcomb—has fostered renewed …

As a general rule, the minimal condition of narrativity is the transformation of an object or
state of affairs into something else through a process that requires a certain amount of time …

In Music, Imagination and Culture, Nicholas Cook outlines a'difference between how people
think and talk about music on the one hand, and how it is experienced on the other'(Cook …

How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in
conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on …

Traditionally, music analysis has been score-oriented and “disembodied” in the sense that
the analysts have tended to regard themselves as external observers of musical structures …

Generally speaking, musical analysis does not sufficiently involve the temporal nature of
music to facilitate making connections between music and language. In search of extrinsic …

[1] This essay describes a hypothesis of how music becomes internalized into the bodies
and minds of listeners. The hypothesis underlies a larger theory of musical meaning …

Distinct performances of the same song can mean very different things. Yet the meaning of
the song may be fixed. My immediate purpose is to show how the interplay of semantics and …

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goes. 1 If music scholars were to accept this analogy completely, we would all have to resign …