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Book SynopsisAlthough philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20
th century, had frustratingly little to say about music—directly, at least. This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, aims to utilize Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice. Heidegger’s thought is applied to a wide range of musical spheres, including improvisation, classical music, electronic music, African music, ancient Chinese music, jazz, rock n’ roll, composition, and musical performance. The volume also features a wide range of philosophical insights on the essence of music, music’s place in society, and the promise of music’s ability to open up new ways of understanding the world with the onset of the technological and digital musical age. Heidegger and Music breaks new philosophical ground by showcasing creative vignettes that not only push Heidegger’s concepts in new directions, but also get us to question the meaning of music in various contexts.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Music, Being, Thinking
Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren
PART I: MUSIC AND BEING-HUMAN
1Rocking Heidegger: Musical Experience between Technology and Ontology
Frederik Pio
2Heidegger on the Slopes and Musical Mountain Biking Multimedia
Jeff R. Warren and John Reid-Hresko
3Distracted Dasein?
Anthony Gritten
4Rilke and the “Tone of Death”: Music and Word in Heidegger
Babette Babich
PART II: MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD
5Grand Style, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Elaborations of a Concept
Erik Wallrup
6Heidegger, Iki, and Musical Resistance to Gestell
J. P. E. Harper-Scott
7The “Silent Music” in Ancient Chinese Thought and Heidegger’s Sound of Stillness
Qinghua Zhu
8Heidegger’s Musik-Sprache or Silence and Bells in the Music of Arvo Pärt
Peter Trawny and Agamenon de Morais
9We Live Therefore We Are: African Musical Aesthetics Challenge Heidegger’s Forgetfulness
Eve Ruddock
PART III: MUSICAL CREATION AND PERFORMANCE
10Improvising the Round Dance of Being: Reading Heidegger from a Musical Perspective
Sam McAuliffe and Jeff Malpas
11Meditative Thinking in Jazz and the Challenge of the Technical
Trevor Thwaites
12Musical Performance as Poetic Thinking
Goetz Richter
13Being-with in Music
Justin Christensen and Janeen Loehr
PART IV: THE POWER OF MUSIC
14Somewhere Between Plato and Pinker: A Heideggerian Ontology of Music
Casey Rentmeester
15Touched by Music: Affective Expression as Measure-Taking
Roger W. H. Savage
16Remembering Air in Schilingi’s Generative Music: Heideggerian Reflections on Argo and Terra
Jill Drouillard
17The Working of Aural Being in Electronic Music
Gerry Stahl
Index
About the Contributors
