Plenary panellists include: Professor \;Jeremy Begbie (Duke)\, Professor Paul Boghossian (NYU)\, Professor Lawrence \;Kramer (Fordham)\, Professor Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati).
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This event\, the third \;of an annual series of conferences run by the Study Group\, will offer an \;opportunity for those with an interest in music and philosophy to share and \;discuss work\, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area.
Philosophers and musicologists have \;provided various ways of thinking through music in relation to its concrete \;particularity as sound\, and its bodily nature in performance and hearing. In \;particular\, they have paid attention to the phenomenology of listening\; to the \;physical nature of sound and its relation to our perceptual experience\; and to \;the bodily aspects of musical \;performance and their inscription in the gestures \;of musical scores. What exactly is the relation between sound and music? How is \;the body involved in the experience of sound\, and of music? \;When answering such \;questions\, what can philosophers learn from musicologists\, and vice versa? \;Music is often conceived very abstractly\, and music as &lsquo\;embodied thought&rsquo\; both \;poses \;challenges and opens up new possibilities. This year&rsquo\;s (optional) theme \;seeks to encourage further philosophical and musicological debate about music \;within the area of &lsquo\;embodiment and the \;physical&rsquo\;.
\nContact: \;conference2013@musicandphilosophy.ac.uk
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For more information\, including details of how to register and a draft \;programme\, please visit the conference website: