Musical Affordances and the Transformation Into Structure

How Gadamer can Complement Enactivist Perspectives on Music

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ID4875801
AuthorsMattias Solli (0000-0003-4852-2337, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume62
Issue3
Pages431-452
Publication date2022-08-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/aesthj/ayac002
OpenAlexW4206674088
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited44

This paper investigates the phenomenological status of musical affordances through a Gadamerian focus on human communication. With an extra emphasis on Reybrouck's much-cited affordance-driven theory, I locate fundamental premises in the affordance concept. By initiating a dialogue with Gadamer's perspective, I suggest a slight yet important shift of perspective that allows us to see an autonomous, transformative, and intrinsically active 'ideality' potentially emerging in music. In the final section, I try to demonstrate how Gadamer's perspective is supported by recent empirical studies on communicative musicality and child development, and allows us to see how protoversions of the transformative 'ideality' are already present at the beginning of human life

Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Autopoiesis · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Complement (music · Enactivism · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Musical · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Child and Animal Learning Development · Communication · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology

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