Music, empathy and ‘virtual worlds'

Date

Dec 6, 2016

Time

4:40 PM - 6:10 PM

Speaker

Eric Clarke

Affiliation

University of Oxford

Language

en

Main Topic

Psychologie

Other Topics

Psychologie, Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh.

Description

There is increasing interest in music and empathy, and with the ways in which music can draw listeners and active participants into forms of engagement with one another. The idea of empathy originally arose in the context of visual art, to account for the ways in which observers can be drawn into the world of a work of art, but quickly developed into a powerful and more general psychological concept. The definition of empathy, however, remains controversial, and the frameworks that have been proposed to account for it range from neuroscience through psychology to sociology and cultural studies. In this lecture I explore the ways in which a broad concept of empathy might provide a fruitful way to understand how it is that listeners engage with the ‘virtual worlds’ that music affords, and what kind of extended musical consciousness they (and we) might experience.

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