Diverging Ontologies in Music for Dancing

European Voices V

Contributions by Egil Bakka Contributions by Enrique Camara de Landa Contributions by Stefan Hackl Contributions by Oliver Graber Contributions by Mojca Kovačič Contributions by Ulrich Morgenstern Contributions by Jasmina Talam Edited by Ardian Ahmedaja

Book cover: Diverging Ontologies in Music for Dancing

Extent: 208 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(July 2023)

ISBN: 9783205217640

6.89 x 9.65 inches

Price: $99.00

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At the heart of this book lie multiple explorations of the interaction and coordinated behaviour of diverse actors involved in the emergence of music for dancing.


The participation of skilful – in addition to soundful – bodies in action is essential to the interaction of individuals in creating music for dancing. Since cultures, being products of human individuation, exist only in performance (Blacking), the recent awareness in anthropology of varying worlds and worldviews (Heywood) reveals particularities of diverging ontologies as an effective object of research. Exploring music for dancing in this context provides significant insights of inter-individual relations and social context, which do not simply arise from the behaviour of individual agents, but themselves enable and shape the individual agents on which they depend (De Jaegher and Froese). Diverging ontologies in music for dancing may therefore be perceived as an indispensable constituent component of the musicdancing coupling.

  • Contributions by Egil Bakka
  • Contributions by Enrique Camara de Landa
  • Contributions by Stefan Hackl
  • Contributions by Oliver Graber
  • Contributions by Mojca Kovačič
  • Contributions by Ulrich Morgenstern
  • Contributions by Jasmina Talam
  • Edited by Ardian Ahmedaja