Music as Atmosphere

<p>This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound. With multidisciplinary insights from music studies sound studies philosophy and media studies chapters investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings.</p><p></p><p>This book probes into cutting edge conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions on atmosphere atmospherology and affect. It also extends the spatial and relational focus towards fundamentally temporal questions of performance process timbre resonance and personhood. The capacity of atmospheric relations to imbue a situation with an ambient feeling and to modulate social collectives is highlighted as well as auditory experience as a means of connecting with feelings. In addition to original research the volume features a first translation of an important text by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz and a debate on affect and atmosphere between the philosophers Jan Slaby and Brian Massumi.</p><p></p><p>This novel contribution to the field of music research provides a strong theoretical framework as well as vibrant case studies which will be invaluable reading for scholars and students of music sound aesthetics media anthropology and contemporary philosophy.</p>