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Music and embodied cognition : listening, moving, feeling, and thinking / Arnie Cox.

By: Cox, Arnie, 1963- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Musical meaning and interpretationPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017Description: 286 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253032317 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Music -- Psychological aspects | Emotions and cognition | Emotions in music | Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.1'1 Summary: Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. He advances his theory of the 'mimetic hypothesis', the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music.
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Originally published: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. He advances his theory of the 'mimetic hypothesis', the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music.

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