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Book SynopsisWith original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary critics, and ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm offers a broad perspective on rhythm-the fundamental pulse that animates music, dance, and poetry across all cultures.
Trade ReviewWhile the overarching rubric is philosophical, the arguments take up residency across the diverse terrain of philosophy ("analytic" and "continental"), cognitive psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, literary studies, musicology, and even visual culture. Most chapters are impressively accessible to non-specialists. * Martin Scherzinger, Revue de musicologie *
It won't be an exaggeration to say that this volume is a philosophical landmark in the realm of aesthetics. * Pablo Seoane Rodriguez, Teorema *
This remarkable collection of essays brings together philosophical and empirical approaches to the significance of rhythm across the arts. The approach is refreshingly interdisciplinary. Anyone concerned with the place of rhythm and metric structure in the arts, and-more generally-within the wider domain of human practices will find this an extraordinarily helpful volume. * Robert Kraut, The Ohio State University *
Fascinating and mysterious, rhythm is at the heart of music, dance, poetry, sociology, and neuroscience. This inspired volume engages, enlightens, and is the first to explore rhythm across a broad range of philosophical, aesthetic, and perceptual domains. This book is required reading for anyone concerned with time and rhythm in contemporary life. * Peter Nelson, University of Edinburgh *
A fascinating and broad overview. This book covers dance, poetry, literature, and painting, as well as music, all considered from a multidisciplinary perspective and including both Continental and analytic approaches to philosophy. This unfairly neglected topic richly rewards the serious treatment that The Philosophy of Rhythm accords it. * Stephen Davies, University of Auckland *
This wonderful collection considers questions about rhythm from a wide variety of angles, perspectives, and disciplines-among them analytic and continental philosophy, musicology, art history, poetics, and neuroscience. Like the dialogue that opens the book, The Philosophy of Rhythm supports no particular line of thought or argument but enormously deepens our understanding of a topic so palpable and yet so mysterious. * Christoph Cox, Hampshire College *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I: Movement and Stasis 1. Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis 2. Rhythm and Movement 3. The Ontology of Rhythm 4. 'Feeling the Beat': Multimodal Perception and the Experience of Musical Movement 5. Dance Rhythm Part II. Emotion and Expression 6. The Life of Rhythm: Dewey, Relational Perception, and the 'Cumulative Effect' 7. Rhythm, Preceding its Abstraction 8. Mozart's 'Dissonance' and the Dialectic of Language and Thought in Classical Theories of Rhythm 9. Rhythm and Popular Music 10. Rhythms, Resemblance, and Musical Expressiveness Part III: Entrainment and the Social Dimension 11. Metric Entrainment and the Problem(s) of Perception 12. Entrainment and the Social Origins of Musical Rhythm 13. How Many Kinds of Rhythm Are There? 14. Temporal Processing and the Experience of Rhythm: A Neuro-psychological Approach Part IV. Time and Experience: Subjective and Objective Rhythm 15. Complexity and Passage: Experimenting with Poetic Rhythm 16. Encoded and Embodied Rhythm: An Unprioritized Ontology 17. Time, Duration, Rhythm: The Aesthetics of Temporality in Bachelard and Deliège 18. Husserl's Model of Time-Consciousness, and the Phenomenology of Rhythm 19. Pictorial Experience and the Perception of Rhythm 20. Soundless Rhythm Part V. Reading Rhythm 21. Hearing it Right: Rhythm and Reading 22. The Not-so-silent Reading: What Does it Mean to Say that we Appreciate Rhythm in Literature? 23. Leaving it Out: Rhythm and Short Form in the Modernist Poetic Tradition 24. Rhythm, Meter, and the Poetics of Abstraction
