Author Description

Contextualizing music and the body: an introduction / Youn Kim and Sander Gilman -- The moving and performing body. Musicalities and the moving body in Western concert dance / Byron Suber; Music and movement: expectations, aesthetics and representation / Jay Schulkin; The science of voice and the body / Marina Gilman; The body as musical instrument / Atau Tanaka and Marco Donnarumma -- The musical brain, psyche, and beyond. Music changes the brain / Paul Lennard; Music and psychoanalysis / Sander Gilman; Music sociology meets neuroscience / Mia Nakamura -- Embodied mind, embodied rhythm. Sound-motion bonding in body and mind / Rolf Inge Godøy; Music, Bacchus, and freedom / Hedy Law; Entrainment and embodiment in musical performance / Eugene Montague; Rhythm and the performer's body / Daniel B. Stevens; Embodied rhythm and musical impact of corporal punishment in twentieth-century opera / Shersten R. Johnson -- Music and the disabled and sexual body. Music and the embodiment of disability / Michael B. Bakan; Musical remediation of disability / Blake Howe; Virtuosities of deafness and blindness: musical performance and the prized body / Stefan Sunandan Honisch; Embodied representation in staged opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon; Sexuality, dis/ability, and sublimity in grand opera / Hanne Blank; Is there disabled music? music and the body from Dame Evelyn Glennie's perspective / Evelyn Glennie, Sander Gilman, and Youn Kim -- Music as medicine. Music and the body in the history of medicine / James Kennaway; Music in body and imagination / H. Martyn Evans -- Music and the multimodal body. Spatial representations common to music and bodily experience / Xuejing Lu and William Forde Thompson; Multimodal music in infancy and early childhood / Sandra E. Trehub; Opera as film: multimodal narrative and embodiment / Yayoi U. Everett; Listening to the musicking body: a cross-disciplinary and historical perspective / Youn Kim