Playing in the Posthuman Band

Toward an Aesthetics of Intra-Action in Musical Leisure

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11216645
AutoresAustin Showen (Arizona State University, autor de correspondencia), Roger Mantie (0000-0002-5150-3279, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia), Roger Allan Mantie (University of Toronto Scarborough)
Año2019
Volumen41
Número5
Páginas385-401
Fecha de publicación2019-09-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeisure Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0149-0400 • E-ISSN: 1521-0588
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01490400.2019.1627962
OpenAlexW2962850873
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas35

In this article we use ideas from theorists associated with the “new materialist” or “posthuman” turns in contemporary philosophy in order to challenge the conception of the musical subject posited in aesthetic contemplation advanced by what we term the “pedagogical music world,” and to pursue the possibilities afforded by an aesthetics of intra-action exemplified in practices of the musical “jam.” We return to ancient Greek conceptions of music and leisure (mousikē and scholē), mediated by posthuman theoretical concerns in an examination of the nature of musical affect to argue that an aesthetics of intra-action necessitates a distributed and immanent notion of musical agency rather than individual and transcendent one. Through this discussion, we attempt to trouble the ideas put forth by the pedagogical music world to illuminate leisure potential as imagined in the “posthuman band.”

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