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Presents a physical culture theory of music for everyone
This intriguing popular science book suggests a basic mechanism how music works: self-organization or synchronization
Sometimes I hear people saying that knowing how music works destroys the magic in music. After decades of doing research in systematic musicology and as a professional musician I find that the opposite is true”
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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About this book
How do we understand culture and shape its future? How do we cross the bridge between culture as ideas and feelings and physical, cultural objects, all this within the endless variety and complexity of modern and traditional societies? This book proposes a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to consciousness, the Physical Culture Theory proposes that consciousness content, what we think, hear, feel, or see is also just this: spatio-temporal electric fields. Music is a perfect candidate to elaborate on such a Physical Culture Theory. Music is all three, musical instrument acoustics, music psychology, and music ethnology. They emerge into living musical systems like all life is self-organization. Therefore the Physical Culture Theory knows no split between nature and nurture, hard and soft sciences, brains and musical instruments. It formulates mathematically complex systems as Physical Models rather than Artificial Intelligence. It includes ethical rules for maintaining life and finds culture and arts to be Human Rights. Enlarging these ideas and mathematical methods into all fields of culture, ecology, economy, or the like will be the task for the next decades to come.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Rolf Bader
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Music Works
Book Subtitle: A Physical Culture Theory
Authors: Rolf Bader
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67155-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67154-9Published: 08 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67157-0Published: 08 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67155-6Published: 07 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics, Music