Aesthetics and Music

Andy Hamilton is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Durham University, UK. He writes for the contemporary music magazine The Wire, and is a jazz pianist.

‘In this new edition of Aesthetics and Music, Andy Hamilton explores music and philosophy, moving beyond Eurocentric perspectives. I was fascinated by how the book challenges the idea of music as disembodied sound or abstract language, focusing instead on its embodied, multisensory and cultural dimensions.’

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece 2. The Concept of Music3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': Aesthetics of Music in the Late-18th and 19th Centuries 4. The Sound of Music5. Rhythm and Time 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as Autonomous and 'Social Fact'7. Improvisation and Composition8. The Aesthetics of Recording9. Music and DanceAnnotated BibliographyIndex