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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2020 by Yale University
- ISSN
- 0022-2909
- eISSN
- 1941-7497
- DOI
- 10.1215/00222909-8033469
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Abstract
Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-music-theory/article-pdf/64/1/137/812126/0640137.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Jonathan De Souza Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition Oxford University Press, 2017: xi + 191 pp. ($44.95 cloth) Alexander Rehding Instrumentalists are cyborgs. “Creatures simultaneously animal and machine,” as Donna Haraway (1991: 149) popularized the term, the cyborg is not only the stuff of science fiction but a lived reality. This hybrid existence of per- former and instrument, of human and technology, has become fully second nature to musicians: Jacqueline du Pré would not be Jacqueline du Pré with- out her cello; Glenn Gould was only fully Glenn Gould when seated, pre- cariously low, at the piano. The tool—the literal translation of the Latinate instrument —is as much part of the human qua musician as a prosthesis would be; it completes the musician. It is this curious interplay between human and machine that is at the heart of Jonathan De Souza’s stunning book Music at Hand. The title of the book points toward the strong Heideggerian f lavor of De Souza’s approach, hinting as it does at the Magus of Meßkirch and his famous distinction between zuhanden and vorhanden, “ready-to-hand” and “present-at-hand.” The tool, Martin Heidegger
Journal
Journal of Music Theory – Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2020