Movement and collaboration in musical performance
Movement and collaboration in musical performance
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音乐表演中的动作与协作
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0034
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
J. Davidson
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作者:
J. Davidson
The body has a crucial role in the production and perception of musical performance that has been recognized for centuries. Indeed, the Ancient Greeks recognized the centrality of the body in all artistic performance expression, revealing that there was little to distinguish between the physical coordination required in music and dance. Speaking of all human activity, ethnomusicologist John Blacking (1977) argued in The Anthropology of the Body that a detailed understanding of the body set within the individual’s cultural context can reveal subtle details about that person and how they interact within society. Increasingly since the 1970s scholarship has paid more attention to the role of the body in artistic activity, providing useful theories relating to how embodied thoughts and actions allow us to know and understand the world we inhabit through artistic performance activities like music and dance. For example, by the 1990s, in the area of critical musicology, Susan McClary’s (1991) Feminine endings usefully addressed the function of the body through groundbreaking studies of popular artists, especially female artists like Madonna and kd Lang. She illustrated how it was as much our knowledge of these women as pop stars that influenced our experience of them, as it was their physical appearance and stage persona alongside the expressive affect experienced in their musical expressions that contributed to the performance: their bodies were recognized as a very special site of social exchange, thus highlighting the physical, social and cultural nexus.Research in the field of music psychology on the body has reflected some of the recent social anthropology and critical musicology trends, and so has developed a strand of socially focused enquiry. These ideas have been central to the work of the current author and will be explored in this chapter. Generally, however, the origins of modern psychology of music work on the body has tended to focus more on the bodily control aspects of playing, such as how movements assemble to execute a musical task. Intriguingly, these motor programming studies have been interfaced with some studies on music learning so that evidence for the emergence of these skills has occurred. Further perceptual enquiries and movement tracking studies have explored the body movements used for expressive musical effects. Also, applied research projects for pedagogical results have explored the use of bodily movement and movement metaphors to enhance understanding of musical expressivity for performers, with parallels being drawn between movement effort and flow to depict qualities in the musical semantics. Finally, within the group music context, studies of the identification of types of bodily movement used for interpersonal collaboration, including the coordination of musical and extramusical material (musical and general social dynamics), and how this information helps to