{"product_id":"9780226826882","title":"Music in the Flesh : An Early Modern Musical Physiology (New Material Histories of Music)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMusic in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects—composers, performers, listeners—in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the powerful effects of music upon the early modern body; it is described as moving, ravishing, painful, dangerous, curative, and miraculous while affecting \"the circulation of the humors, the purification of the blood, the dilation of the vessels and pores.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e How were these early modern European bodies constituted that music generated such potent bodily-spiritual effects? Bettina Varwig argues that early modern music-making practices challenge our modern understanding of human nature as a mind-body dichotomy. Instead, they persistently affirm a more integrated anthropology, in which body, soul, and spirit remain inextricably entangled. Moving with ease across repertories and regions, sacred and vernacular musics, and domestic and public settings, Varwig sketches a \"musical physiology\" that is as historically illuminating as it is relevant for present-day performance. This book makes a significant contribution not just to the history of music, but also to the history of the body, the senses, and the emotions, revealing music as a unique access point for reimagining early modern modes of being-in-the-world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45376689569871,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1890.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780226826882-1.jpg?v=1780185241","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780226826882","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}