CCHU 9038 Music and the Human Body 2013 Spring Topic 7 Body in the Mind Mind in the Body Thursday, 21 March 2013 TOPIC 7 Body in the Mind and Mind in the Body Introduction • Blakemore, Colin, and Sheila Jennett. 2002. "Music and the Body." In The Oxford Companion to the Body. New Jersey: Oxford University Press. Body in the mind • Listen to The Beatles: Something in the way she moves • Johnson, Mark. 2007. "Music and the Flow of Meaning." In The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding, 243–247, 259–262. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mind in the body • Levitin, Daniel J. 2006. "3. Behind the Curtain: Music and the Mind Machine." In This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, 83–85. New York: Dutton. 2 Thursday, 21 March 2013 1. Music and the “HUMAN” Body Thursday, 21 March 2013 Whale songs Bird songs Entrainment Musical synchronization 4 Thursday, 21 March 2013 Do animals have music? Is music truly unique to human? Are other species musical? “Animal Music”? Zoomusicology/Biomusicology 5 Thursday, 21 March 2013 “only humans have a natural, or, innate, inclination to engage with music.” ‐‐ I. Peretz Do all human beings have music? 6 Thursday, 21 March 2013 Language and music are unique to and universal to all human society Homo Loquens & Homo Musicus 7 Thursday, 21 March 2013 “Becoming Human” and Music Bipedalism “Does man need music?” Survival value of music? or is music an “auditory cheesecake”? Survival benefits of music Thursday, 21 March 2013 music as “humanly organized sound” Thursday, 21 March 2013 2. Body, Mind, & Music Thursday, 21 March 2013 Mind‐body Dualism Body and Mind Interactions René Descartes (1596‐1650) Thursday, 21 March 2013 Mind in the Body Mind = Brain (part of a body) ? Brain transplantation? Phrenology Functional Specialization of the Brain Musical Brain? 12 Thursday, 21 March 2013 Body in the Mind Embodied Cognition (Embodied Mind) The Body Shapes The Mind 13 Thursday, 21 March 2013 3. “We listen with our bodies” 14 Thursday, 21 March 2013 Sound Vibrations Cymatics Chladni patterns 15 Thursday, 21 March 2013.