期刊名称：Avant : Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard
印刷版ISSN：2082-7598
电子版ISSN：2082-6710
出版年度：2012
卷号：III
期号：1
出版社：Centre for Philosophical Research
摘要：Leman's latest book is a refreshing treatment for the traditional (by which I mean: disembodied) cognitive science of music. What is more, the book serves as a start-ing point of an almost natural (given the recent variety of empirical data from em-pirical musicology and the studies on musical gestures, musical movement and the biomechanics of the body) application of the paradigm of embodied cognition into musical research, this work mo st certainly stands as a manifesto of the paradigm of what the author calls the theory of embodied music cognition (hereafter: EMC). By the means of looking at the role of the bo dy in music processing, Leman 's w ork encourages us to shift aw ay from the classical (disembodied) research on music (including aesthetics, and more generally: philosophy of music, still relying mainly on the linguistic descriptions of, for instance, musical experience), hence, the ref-erence to the Frank Zappa quote57in the title of this review. Embodied Music Cogni-tion and Mediation Technology is exciting due to its being grounded in the out-comes of empirical research, as pursued mostly by Marc Leman in his laboratory based at the University of Gent, Belgium
