The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body

The presence of the phenomenological body is central to music in all of its varieties and contradictions. With the explosion of scholarly works on the body in virtually every field in the humanities, the social as well as the biomedical sciences, the question of how such a complex understanding of the body is related to music, with its own complexity, has been investigated within specific disciplinary perspectives. The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body brings together scholars from across these fields, providing a platform for the discussion of the multidimensional interfaces of music and the body. The book is organized into six sections, each discussing a topic that defines the field: the moving and performing body; the musical brain and psyche; embodied mind, embodied rhythm; the disabled and sexual body; music as medicine; and the multimodal body. Connecting a wide array of diverse perspectives and presenting a survey of research and practice, the Handbook provides an introduction into the rich world of music and the body.

Youn Kim is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include history of music theory, psychology of music, history of listening, and in particular, the interrelationship between music theory and the science of the mind. She has published articles on these subjects and is currently writing a book on body and force in music. Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over ninety books. His Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2018. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years he was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and recently as the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2017-18). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007), and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).

1. Youn Kim and Sander Gilman: Contextualizing Music and the Body: An Introduction Part I. The Moving and Performing Body 2. Musicalities and the Moving Body in Western Concert Dance Byron Suber 3. Music and Movement: Expectations, Aesthetics, and Representation Jay Schulkin 4. The Science of Voice and the Body Marina Gilman 5. The Body as Musical Instrument Atau Tanaka and Marco Donnarumma Part II. The Musical Brain, Psyche, and Beyond 6. Music Changes the Brain Paul Lennard 7. Music and Psychoanalysis Sander Gilman 8. Music Sociology Meets Neuroscience Mia Nakamura Part III. Embodied Mind, Embodied Rhythm 9. Sound-Motion Bonding in Body and Mind Rolf Inge Godøy 10. Music, Bacchus, and Freedom Hedy Law 11. Entrainment and Embodiment in Musical Performance Eugene Montague 12. Rhythm and the Performer's Body Daniel B. Stevens 13. Embodied Rhythm and Musical Impact of Corporal Punishment in Twentieth-Century Opera Shersten Johnson IV. Music and the Disabled and Sexual Body 14. Music and the Embodiment of Disability Michael B. Bakan 15. Musical Remediation of Disability Blake Howe 16. Virtuosities of Deafness and Blindness: Musical Performance and the Prized Body Stefan Sunandan Honisch 17. Embodied Representation in Staged Opera Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon 18. Sexuality, Dis/Ability, and Sublimity in Grand Opera Hanne Blank 19. Is There Disabled Music? Music and the Body from Dame Evelyn Glennie's Perspective Evelyn Glennie, Sander Gilman, and Youn Kim V. Music as Medicine 20. Music and the Body in the History of Medicine James Kennaway 21. Music in Body and Imagination H. M. Evans VI. Music and The Multimodal Body 22. Spatial Representations Common to Music and Bodily Experience Xuejing Lu and William Forde Thompson 23. Multimodal Music in Infancy and Early Childhood Sandra E. Trehub 24. Opera as Film: Multimodal Narrative and Embodiment Yayoi U. Everett 25. Listening to the Musicking Body: A Cross-Disciplinary and Historical Perspective Youn Kim