Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Music & Mind

Music affects the mind in ways that have long fascinated philosophers. This philosophical interest in music's affective qualities stretches from ancient Greece and the Cult of Asclepius, to the enlightenment ethics of Spinoza, to the modern thought of Schopenhauer. As a non-representational art form, music resists the kind of semiological and mimetic analysis in which scholars and audiences typically approach the plastic arts and literature. Instead, music seems to affect people in ways that are predominantly visceral and emotional, not analytical. Music's affective properties make it an especially interesting medium to explore human consciousness and experience.

A call for chapters along the lines of Music and Mind may be approached interdisciplinarily from Musicology, Music Theory, Music Therapy, Philosophy, Psychology, Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), though this list is not intended to be exhaustive nor restrictive. Some specific ideas for exploration are as follows.

• Music and Perspective
• Music and Cognition
• Music Therapy
• Music and Disability
• Music and Memory
• Music and Emotion
• Music and Neurology
• Music and Neurodivergence
• Music and Psychology
• Music and Technology/AI
• Philosophy of Mind
• Music and Theology/Ecclesiology
• Doctrine of Ethos

For Guidelines and Submissions email the editor Dr Jamie Meyers-Riczu at jamie.meyers-riczu@concordia.ab.ca. Deadline for submissions is 31st December 2024.