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My book, entitled Music and Ethical Responsibility, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. It will be available in mid2014. The research question that is common to all of my work is: how does music affect the ways people interact? This book explores this question directly. In a nutshell, it explores the ethical responsibilities that arise in musical experience. Using a phenomenological approach, I argue that all musical experience involves encounters with other people. Drawing upon the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, I also argue that ethical responsibilities arise in encounters with others. So, what are the ethical responsibilities that arise in musical experience? That is what I explore in the book, using case studies ranging from improvisation to other peoples music to noise along the way. To dig into this question, I explore a range of topics including: musical meaning, musical experience, and inherited ideas of music and morality. Below is a draft table of contents. Ill continue to add more teasers about the book in due course.
Introduction!
The Attraction of Improvisation! The Problem of Applying Improvisation to Social Relationships! What is Improvisation?! Negotiating Contingencies