Synopses & Reviews
Music is a powerful means of communication. It provides a means by which people can share emotions, intentions, and meanings even though their spoken languages may be mutually incomprehensible. It can also provide a vital lifeline to human interaction for those whose special needs make other means of communication difficult. Music can exert powerful physical effects, can produce deep and profound emotions within us, and can be used to generate infinitely subtle variations of expressiveness by skilled composers and performers.
This new addition to the music psychology list brings together leading researchers from a variety of academic and applied backgrounds. It examines how music can be used to communicate and the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes which underlie such communication. Taking a broad, interdisciplinary look at all aspects of communication, from the symbolic aspects of musical notation, to the use of music in advertising, the book is the first of its kind. It will be valuable for all those involved in music cognition, music education, and communication studies.
Review
"For anyone interested in music as a form of communication, this book is a reasonably priced paperback worth owning."--Doody's
Table of Contents
1. How do people communicate using music?,
David J Hargreaves, Raymond MacDonald and Dorothy Miell2. Music and meaning, ambiguity and evolution, Ian Cross
3. Music and conversation, R Keith Sawyer
Cognition, Representation and Communication
4. Musical communication and music cognition: liberties and limitations, Annabel J Cohen
5. From mimesis to catharsis: expression, perception and induction of emotion in music, Patrik N Juslin
6. Representation, cognition and musical communication: invented notation in children's musical communication, Margaret Barrett
7. How the conventions of music notation shape musical perception and performance, Jeanne Bamberger
Embodied Communication
8. Rhythm, human temporality and brain function, Michael H Thaut
9. Musical companionship, musical community: music therapy and the process and value of musical communication, Gary Ansdell
10. Bodily communication in musical performance, Jane Davidson
11. Singing as communication, Graham F Welch
Communication in Learning and Education
12. Musical communication and children's communities of musical practice, Margaret Barrett
13. Musical communication between adults and young children, Susan Young
14. Pedagogical communication in the music classroom, Charles Byrne
Cultural Contexts of Communication
15. Talking about music: a vehicle for identity development, Raymond MacDonald, Dorothy Miell and Graeme Wilson
16. Hippies vs Hip-hop heads: an exploration of music's ability to communicate an alternative political agenda from the perspective of two divergent musical genres, Janis McNair and John Powles
17. Communication in Indian raga performance, Martin Clayton
18. The role of music communication in cinema, Scott D Lipscomb and David E Tolchinsky
19. Musical communication in commercial contexts, Adrian C North and David J Hargreaves