A Critical Phenomenology of Music: Disclosing/Transposing the Habitual Body Schema

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Rachel Elliott

A Critical Phenomenology of Music

Disclosing/Transposing the Habitual Body Schema

Rachel Elliott

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Palgrave Macmillan
16 July 2025

Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: aesthetics; History of ideas

Drawing a link between music and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the habit body – a quasi-transcendental structure at the heart of our perceptual, social, and agential being – this book helps articulate why music has the power to express as well as shape our existence at a fundamental level. Using phenomenology, research in the cognitive sciences, and first-person descriptions of musical experiences, this book addresses topics such as the relationship of music to identity, the capacity of music to be personally and socially transformative, the role of music in our perception of others, the connection between music and trauma, and the possibility of engendering we-experiences through shared musical time.

By: Rachel Elliott
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031921100
ISBN 10: 3031921100
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Elliott is a Doctoral Lecturer in Philosophy at CUNY, College of Staten Island, in New York City. This is her first book.