In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies,
music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a …

What is music, and why does it move us? From Pythagoras to the present, writers have
struggled to isolate the essence of" pure" or" absolute" music in ways that also account for its …

Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary
musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms …

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective
processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time …

Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in
designing, initiating, executing and evaluating community music practices. Designed for …

The critical literature review summarizes and appraises studies that have been pursued by
music scholars examining the contributions of music to peacebuilding as well as the role of …

In this paper, we present recent and on-going research in the field of embodied music
cognition, with a focus on studies conducted at IPEM, the research laboratory in systematic …

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is
geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation …

Over the past decade, embodied music cognition has become an influential paradigm in
music research. The paradigm holds that music cognition is strongly determined by …

I am not quite sure when the world fell apart. When I began my study of ethnomusicology in
1968, there was a great deal of excitement and optimism about this relatively new field of …