Musicing, materiality, and the emotional niche
Krueger, JW
Date: 1 November 2015
Article
Journal
Action, Theory, and Criticism for Music Education
Publisher
Mayday Group
Abstract
Building on Elliot and Silverman’s (2014) embodied and enactive approach to musicing, I argue for an
extended approach: namely, the idea that music can function as an environmental scaffolding
supporting the development of various experiences and embodied practices that would otherwise
remain inaccessible. I focus especially on the ...
Building on Elliot and Silverman’s (2014) embodied and enactive approach to musicing, I argue for an
extended approach: namely, the idea that music can function as an environmental scaffolding
supporting the development of various experiences and embodied practices that would otherwise
remain inaccessible. I focus especially on the materiality of music. I argue that one of the central
ways we use music, as a material resource, is to manipulate social space—and in so doing,
manipulate our emotions. Acts of musicing, thought of as processes of environmental space
manipulation, are thus examples of what I term “emotional niche construction”. I explore three
dimensions of this process and appeal to different strands of empirical work to support this picture
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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