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Ways of Listening - An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (Paperback)
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Ways of Listening - An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (Paperback)
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In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have
published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately,
this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to
musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on
the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke
explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives,
and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke
outlines an "ecological approach" to understanding the perception
of music. The way we hear and understand music is not simply a
function of our brain structure or of the musical "codes" given to
us by culture, Clarke argues. Instead, cognitive, psychoacoustical,
and semiotic issues must be considered within the physical and
social contexts of listening. In essence, Clarke adapts John
Gibson's influential ecological theory of perception to the complex
process of perceiving music. In addition to making a theoretical
argument, the author offers a number of case studies to illustrate
his concept. For example, he analyzes the experience of listening
to Jimi Hendrix's performance of the Star Spangled Banner at
Woodstock in 1969. Clarke examines how Hendrix's choice of
instrument and venue, use of distortion, and the political climate
in which he performed all had an impact on his audience's
perception of the anthem. A complex convergence of broad cultural
contexts and specific musical features - the entire "ecology" of
the listening experience - is responsible for this performance's
impact. Including both the best psychological research and careful
musicological scholarship, Clarke's book offers the most complex
and insightful perspective on musical meaning to date. It will be
of interest to musicologists, musicians, psychologists, and
scholars of aesthetics.
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