Communicative Musicality - Exploring the Basis of Human Companionship

Inbunden bok. Oxford. 2009. 627 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i mycket gott skick. This provocative volume offers a collection of thoughtful essays on the nature and origins of intersubjectivity-the sharing of consciousness. The "communicative musicality" with which it deals is a gift that complements language by providing us with a means for sharing and coordinating experienced space and time, thereby reducing the possibility for disagreement inherent in exclusively verbal meaning. It lies at the base of our ever-present intention to share our experienced worlds with each other.

This is an inspiring and pioneering work!" Jerome Bruner, University Professor, New York University School of Law, USA

'This book should be an eye opener and inspiration for all clinicians. From a new and unexpected yet finally obvious perspective, it explores what relationships are about. It defines how the therapeutic relationship, the sharing of experience and movement in behavior, cares and goals that is the key element in psychotherapeutic change, might effect its cure. The concept of communicative musicality elucidates many clinical concerns in a richly detailed and convincing manner.

Daniel N. Stern, MD, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical School, NY; Honorary Professor in Psychology. University of Geneva: Faculty, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, NY, USA

"Performing musicians such as me, spend a lifetime attempting to capture the "meaning" of music by way of disciplined, communicative gesture. We interpret music. But it is clear to me that this is possible because of a universal lexicon of early vocal and physical interaction which we must all share and without which music could not "speak". The insightful and authoritative essays skilfully gathered in this publication invite us to look much further into this, previously obscure, implicit musical world. Their varied topics have significance beyond themselves, obliging us to consider the very nature of human communication, relationships and emotional meaning.'

Paul Robertson, founder leader of Medici String Quartet and Visiting Professor in Music and Medicine to the Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK

'It is now clear that an important and possibly the most important way in which people communicate and understand each other is through a direct sharing of actions, emotions, and intentions. The discovery of mirror neurons in the motor system and the subsequent description of the mirror mechanism for emotions gave this view a strong neurophysiological basis. What about music? Why has "communicative musicality" evolved? This original collection of essays deals with this fascinating problem. Reading it gave one new and fresh intuitions on the origin of music and the evolution of our communication capacities.'

Giacomo Rizzolatti MD, Professor of Human Physiology, Università di Parma, Italy