The Body in Music

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4724-8232-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 165 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music

The Body in Music is a groundbreaking music psychology text innovatively marrying perspectives from western music performance practice and pedagogy with those spanning experimental to social research. Founded on a significant heritage of artistic practice, it reinvigorates traditional ideas with fresh knowledge garnered from the burgeoning field of inquiry into the role of the body in generating, communicating, and perceiving performance. An exemplar vignette, crafted from the authors’ shared performance experience, sets the tone for the work, embedding it in an established socio-cultural context. Case-study driven chapters strive to reconcile empirical work and performance practice. Woven together, they form a narrative journeying the multi-dimensional roles of bodily engagement with music performance. This text is timely in that it bridges a widening gap between disciplines, researcher, and practitioner offering pathways of convergence towards developing theory and understanding of the body in music performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Jane W.

Broughton, Mary C.

Über Autor(innen)

Jane W. Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing arts at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. She is also Deputy Director of the $24M Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has more than 100 publications, including five books, all focused on the topic of performance studies, with the scope ranging from the development of musical skills through to the factors contributing to expressive musical performance from contemporary to Baroque performance. She was active as an opera singer for twenty years and now devotes time to directing for the stage. Mary Broughton is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Queensland. Her PhD from the University of Western Sydney applied experimental and empirical methods to examine the potency of bodily gesture in communicating expressive solo marimba performance to the observer. Publications related to music performance include articles in top-ranking music psychology journals, original compositions, and appearances on CD recordings. A percussionist, her performance work spans solo, chamber, and orchestral contexts at national and international levels.