Public seminar: Nina Eidsheim (University of California)

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Abstract

I am concerned with surfacing naturalized metaphorical underpinnings of music discourse, performance, and listening practice and how they contribute to naturalizing music and those musicking. Just as we draw upon our embodied experience of the world to invent metaphors, metaphors also contribute to framing our perception, and thus our embodied experience, of the world. This messy, sometimes ungovernable process is ultimately at the heart of how we make sense of music and everything else that surrounds us. At the same time, the sense we make of metaphors inevitably influences the actions we take to shape the material worlds we create. One important step toward a music studies that better reflect those musicking is to develop methodologies and practices that help us become aware of naturalized metaphors, giving way for both rejection and play.