Experience and Meaning in Music Performance

Martin Clayton is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Durham University. His books include Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre and Form in North Indian Rag Performance (2000), Music, Time and Place: Essays in Comparative Musicology (2007), Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s: Portrayal of the East (2007) and The Cultural Study of Music (2003/2012). Laura Leante is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Durham University. Her research interests range over Indian classical and folk music, music of the South Asian diaspora, performance analysis, and popular music. Since 2005 she has been involved in a number of projects, investigating processes of meaning construction in musical performance and reception, with particular focus on Hindustani classical music. Byron Dueck is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Open University. His research interests include North American indigenous music and dance, rhythm and metre, musical publics, and role and recruitment in musical interactions. He is the co-editor, with Jason Toynbee, of Migrating Music (Routledge, 2011) and the author of Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries: Aboriginal Music and Dance in Public Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; About the companion web site ; Chapter 1. Introduction (Martin Clayton, Byron Dueck and Laura Leante) ; Chapter 2. Entrainment, ethnography and musical interaction (Martin Clayton) ; Chapter 3. Social co-regulation and communication in North Indian duo performances (Nikki Moran) ; Chapter 4. Groove: temporality, awareness and the feeling of entrainment in jazz performance (Mark Doffman) ; Chapter 5. Performing the Rosary: meanings of time in Afro-Brazilian Congado music (Glaura Lucas) ; Chapter 6. Performance and shame (Andy McGuiness) ; Chapter 7. Rhythm and role recruitment in Manitoban aboriginal vocal and instrumental music (Byron Dueck) ; Chapter 8. Imagery, gesture and listeners' construction of meaning in North Indian classical music (Laura Leante) ; Chapter 9. Embodiment and movement in musical performance (Martin Clayton and Laura Leante) ; References